crabbed

Example Sentences

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But if philosophical lines are drawn, Jackson has the gifts to make clear that her vision to the law is truer to the Constitution’s promise of equal justice than the right-wing’s crabbed and ideological approach.

From Washington Post

But it is quite another for the judiciary to apply that same crabbed conception to speech beyond the school setting.

From Washington Post

This is a truly crabbed and reductive view of the man and his work.

From Los Angeles Times

That said, the board seems to be taking a rather crabbed view of the sanctity of the CalPERS name.

From Los Angeles Times

He’d come home thirty pounds lighter, fish white, with flakes of pink polish still at the tips of his grown-out, crabbed nails.

From The New Yorker