more crabbed
Example Sentences
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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
"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 Optic, Oliver
All through his career we find him hard to get on with, proud to his inferiors, still more crabbed to those above him.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
Soon after he left Oxford, perhaps in 1860, his handwriting changed its character; it became less boyish, but more crabbed and careless.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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
