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
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
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
It is harmless as a dog or cat except when crossed by children, when it will snarl, snap, and bite like the most crabbed cur.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne
When I feel most sorry for any one I'm most crabbed.
From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Roe, Edward Payson
