crabbed

Example Sentences

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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

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

Limbaugh might have had a choice at one point, a choice to stop being a crabbed, reactionary loudmouth and do something different.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020

If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings