more crabbed
Example Sentences
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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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright
He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.
From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady
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 Irving, Washington
"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
