more crabbed
Example Sentences
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And at Riverview his father moped in his office and about his fields, growing ever more crabbed and more obstinate, and falling into a rage whenever any one dared mention Tom's name before him.
From A Soldier of Virginia by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
"Certainly not; and that shows the folly of boys like you meddling with what you don't understand," said he, sourly, and in a more crabbed tone than he had ever before used to me.
From Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Optic, Oliver
He became more crabbed and irritable than ever; he seemed to be withering away, and his face grew to haunt me, it was so harried and anxious.
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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 Lang, Andrew
All these accomplishments, however, procured him no favour in the eyes of the doctor, who grew more and more crabbed and intolerant, the nearer the term of apprenticeship approached.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington
