more crabbed
Example Sentences
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She knows more crabbed things and crabbed words than all the Errate betwixt here and Catalonia.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
All through his career we find him hard to get on with, proud to his inferiors, still more crabbed to those above him.
From Raleigh by Andrew Lang
My Lessons are more crabbed, or I am more dull and inattentive, for I cannot fix my Minde on my Book, and am secretlie wearie, Robin wearies too.
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
Everyone entertained a profound respect for him, and he might have been a popular pet but for his temper which, never genial, became more and more crabbed.
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
He to know the seventy-two languages he couldn't be more crabbed than what he is.
From Three Wonder Plays by Lady Gregory
