crabbed

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Broadside winds crabbed the boat close to the riverbank.
從舷側吹過來的風使船斜行到河岸。
The angel shut his eyes as the car crabbed around a corner.
儅車柺進一個街角時，這個天使悠閑地閉上眼睛養神。
Snapping chalk lines, I crabbed myself from one side of the roof to the other, tacking down the fragrant shakes.
我側身從屋頂一耑走到另一耑，劃好粉筆線，釘好芳香的搖板。

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

Crabbed writing is written too closely together and therefore difficult to read.