most crabbed
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At its core is one of the most crabbed conceptions of liberty ever penned by a Supreme Court justice.
From Slate • May 18, 2022
The letter to the Lady Juana, which gives Columbus's own statement of the indignities put upon him in San Domingo, is written in his most crabbed Spanish.
From The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time by Hale, Edward Everett
But with what a gusto he would describe his favourite authors, Donne or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages delicious.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
The direction was in a beautiful commercial hand, which was at once more hateful in his eyes than the most crabbed of writing.
From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell
But with what a gusto would he describe his favourite authors, Donne, or Sir Philip Sidney, and call their most crabbed passages delicious!
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob
