crabbed
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She also shaved her head — all to add authenticity as her queen evolved from youth to crabbed old age.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023
But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2021
This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2021
Limbaugh might have had a choice at one point, a choice to stop being a crabbed, reactionary loudmouth and do something different.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020
The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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