crabbed
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Crabbed Youth & Age Sir: The first glance at your Nov. 5 cover with its "Younger Generation" banner and its picture of Winston Churchill was, to say the least, rather striking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crabbed age and youth: the old men and women of the Restoration comedy of manners.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Crabbed, wrinkled, sarcastic old fellow, whose self-conceit is immeasurable.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
"And I think you have disproved that Crabbed age and youth Cannot live together."
From Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
All Dreams! meer Dreams! bred from the Fumes of Crabbed Education, and must we for this lose true Substantial Pleasure?
From The Female Wits by Anonymous
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