more crabbed
Example Sentences
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Soon after he left Oxford, perhaps in 1860, his handwriting changed its character; it became less boyish, but more crabbed and careless.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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
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
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
