crabwise
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[edit] Etymology
[edit] Adjective
crabwise (not comparable)
- In the manner of a crab; sideways.
- (figuratively) Incidental.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 788:
- Quite apart from their crabwise and often reluctant embrace of religious toleration for a wide variety of religious dissidence, both countries achieved a wider distribution of prosperity than any other part of seventeenth-century Europe.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 788:
[edit] Adverb
crabwise (not comparable)
