In a grumpy, irritable, or cramped manner.
Adverbial form created by adding -ly to the adjective 'crabbed,' following standard English word formation for adverbs.
By adding -ly to 'crabbed,' English transforms an adjective describing a state into an adverb describing how an action is performed—one of the language's most elegant morphological tricks.
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