more crabbed
Example Sentences
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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 Butler, Charles
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 Borrow, George Henry
It is fuller of conceits than ever Cowley crowded into the same space; and lines more crabbed and inharmonious Donne never succeeded in perpetrating.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
Therefore, Miss Sarah Maltby was still a pensioner on the bounty of the Corner House girls, and the fact perhaps made her more crabbed of temper than she otherwise might have been.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
