crabbed (adj.)
- acerb
- acerbic
- anile
- bearish
- bitchy
- blunt
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- complex
- complicated
- confounded
- confused
- convoluted
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- crusty
- cussed
- daedal
- debilitated
- decrepit
- devious
- difficult
- disagreeable
- doddering
- doddery
- dour
- dry
- elaborate
- entangled
- excitable
- feeble
- feisty
- fossilized
- fractious
- garbled
- gloomy
- glum
- green
- gruff
- hard
- huffish
- huffy
- implicated
- infirm
- intricate
- involved
- irascible
- irritable
- jumbled
- knotted
- knotty
- labyrinthian
- labyrinthine
- matted
- mazy
- mean
- meandering
- morose
- moth-eaten
- multifarious
- obscure
- ornery
- palsied
- perplexed
- perverse
- pickled
- pungent
- rickety
- roundabout
- rusty
- saturnine
- scrambled
- sec
- senile
- shaky
- shriveled
- snappish
- snarled
- sour
- soured
- sourish
- spiteful
- splenetic
- subtle
- sulky
- surly
- tangled
- tart
- testy
- timeworn
- tottering
- tottery
- tough
- twisted
- ugly
- unripe
- unsweet
- unsweetened
- vinegarish
- vinegary
- waspish
- weak
- withered
- wizened
Crabbed age and youth
Cannot live together.
How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
