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 Optic, Oliver
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
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 Sheppard, Elizabeth
My Lessons are more crabbed, or I am more dull and inattentive, for I cannot fix my Minde on my Book, and am secretlie wearie, Robin wearies too.
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne
He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.
From Three Wonder Plays by Gregory, Lady
