Meaning of crabwise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In the manner of a crab; sideways.
   not-comparable
2. Incidental.
   figuratively, not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

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