crabbed
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She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The real issue raised by this new crabbed system of historical reasoning is the intellectual stance, temperament, and habits lawyers, judges, and legislators should bring to the task of historical, analogical reasoning.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2023
In this crabbed and narrow view of things, the prime offender was the Pop art typified by Andy Warhol, whose 1970 retrospective caused a hubbub at the organizing Pasadena Museum of Art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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