more crabbed
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She knows more crabbed things and crabbed words than all the Errate betwixt here and Catalonia.
From The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
My copy was more crabbed than ever; but while she commented so gravely thereupon, I thought of what Santonio had said about my arm and hand.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
"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
Everyone entertained a profound respect for him, and he might have been a popular pet but for his temper which, never genial, became more and more crabbed.
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.
From Three Wonder Plays by Lady Gregory
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