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81Obscurity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Obscurity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 obscurity obscurity &c.(unintelligibility) 519 Sgm: N 1 involution involution Sgm: N 1 hard words hard words Sgm: N 1 ambiguity ambiguity &c. 520 Sgm: N 1 unintelligibleness …
82crabby — 1520s, in now obsolete sense crooked, gnarled, rough, from extended sense of CRAB (Cf. crab) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning disagreeable, sour, peevish is attested from 1776, Amer.Eng. Both senses were found earlier in CRABBED (Cf. crabbed) …
83harsh — a. 1. Rough. 2. Sour, acrid, tart, crabbed, hard, biting, sharp, caustic, corrosive. 3. Grating, discordant, jarring. 4. Crabbed, morose, stern, severe, austere, acrimonious, ill tempered, hard, ill natured, sour, unkind, unfeeling. 5. Rude,… …
84sour — sour, acid, acidulous, tart, dry mean having a taste devoid of sweetness. All but dry suggest the taste of lemons, vinegar, or of most unripe fruits. Sour and acid are often interchangeable, but sour is more likely to be chosen to describe… …
85crusty — adj harsh, surly, rude, curt, brusque, short; sour, bitter, caustic; testy, prickly, touchy, fretful; crabbed, grouchy, ill natured. See crabbed(defs.1, 2) …
86crab — crab1 [krab] n. [ME crabbe < OE crabba < IE base * grebh , *gerebh , to scratch: see GRAPHIC] 1. any of various decapods with four pairs of legs, one pair of pincers, a flattish shell, and a short, broad abdomen folded under its thorax 2.… …
87crabbiness — noun a disposition to be ill tempered • Syn: ↑crabbedness, ↑crossness • Derivationally related forms: ↑cross (for: ↑crossness), ↑crabbed (for: ↑ …
88ill-tempered — adjective annoyed and irritable • Syn: ↑crabbed, ↑crabby, ↑cross, ↑fussy, ↑grouchy, ↑grumpy, ↑bad tempered • Similar to: ↑ill natured …
89crabbedly — adverb Etymology: Middle English, from crabbed + ly : in a crabbed manner …
90crab´bed|ness — crab|bed «KRAB ihd», adjective. 1. hard to read or decipher because irregular: »The teacher refused to accept papers with crabbed handwriting. 2. hard to understand; perplexing: »This writer has a crabbed style. 3. peevish; ill natured; cross …
