more crabbed
Example Sentences
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"Certainly not; and that shows the folly of boys like you meddling with what you don't understand," said he, sourly, and in a more crabbed tone than he had ever before used to me.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic
All these accomplishments, however, procured him no favour in the eyes of the doctor, who grew more and more crabbed and intolerant, the nearer the term of apprenticeship approached.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
His diction has some resemblance to that of Tertullian, but is much more crabbed and obscure: none, but the ablest Latin scholars, can understand him.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Charles Butler
He became more crabbed and irritable than ever; he seemed to be withering away, and his face grew to haunt me, it was so harried and anxious.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
She knows more crabbed things and crabbed words than all the Errate betwixt here and Catalonia.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
