crabbed

Example Sentences

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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

Such a crabbed view goes against how art is often created — spontaneously, with improvisation and serendipity.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

The real issue raised by this new crabbed system of historical reasoning is the intellectual stance, temperament, and habits lawyers, judges, and legislators should bring to the task of historical, analogical reasoning.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2023

In this crabbed and narrow view of things, the prime offender was the Pop art typified by Andy Warhol, whose 1970 retrospective caused a hubbub at the organizing Pasadena Museum of Art.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2022

If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings