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We think the answer is "CRABBED" which means:

adjective satellite
• • Annoyed and irritable
verb
• • To fish for crabs.
• • To ruin.
• • To complain.
• • To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
• • To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
• • To move (a camera) sideways.
• • (world war i), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
• • To back out of something.
• • (obsolete) to irritate, make surly or sour
• • To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
• • (british dialect) to cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
adjective
• • Bad-tempered or cantankerous.
• • Cramped, bent.
• • (of handwriting) crowded together and difficult to read.

An example sentence would be:

• • "She wrote a crabbed letter filled with complaints and criticism."
• • "The professor's crabbed handwriting made it difficult to read his notes."

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