more crabbed
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Therefore, Miss Sarah Maltby was still a pensioner on the bounty of the Corner House girls, and the fact perhaps made her more crabbed of temper than she otherwise might have been.
From The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Hill, Grace Brooks
His diction has some resemblance to that of Tertullian, but is much more crabbed and obscure: none, but the ablest Latin scholars, can understand him.
From The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands by Butler, Charles
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 Seton, Ernest Thompson
The Duke's letters are written in a peculiar, irregular hand, very difficult to read, and becoming more crabbed as he advanced in years.
From The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter by Wellington, Duke of
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 Mabie, Hamilton Wright
