Doug Springsteen was an Army driver in Europe during the Second World War who came home and seethed at his crabbed circumstances.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

He is an exhilarating writer, and his view seems so much more exciting, and inspiring, than the sometimes crabbed reasoning of Justice Scalia.

ECONOMIST: The politics of justice

Hence, there is something crabbed and withholding in her writings, as if she is going out of her way on principle to avoid giving any assurance that everyone in fact would be better off under capitalism.

FORBES: Uncommon Sense

Wales' backline has all too often crabbed one way, crabbed the other way - perhaps paused to let a big lad take it forward - then continued in its lateral way before losing patience and gifting possession away.

BBC: Winless Wales still pack punch

One morning, while we were waiting to board a flight to the southeastern city of Guangzhou, where Lang was to perform another concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, he admitted that the disapproval of peers is far more daunting than the crabbed notices of the critics.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian