How To Use Crabbed In A Sentence
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She crabbed again when he didn't take advantage of the multi-laned road.
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Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Even if you were that man himself, you have no reason to be crabbed at because I'm having a bad morning.
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But if the only way to do it is via a cranky and crabbed dismissal of science, count me out.
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These are, of course, the sour thoughts of a crabbed and incorrigible old cynic.
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The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal.
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Atop the videocassette was a note penned in blue ink in my brother's surprisingly crabbed handwriting.
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It was written with a pen in a crabbed hand, and the sum and substance of it was this.
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But this crabbed, Hobbesian spirit of social Darwinism has been bested before, and we can overcome it again.
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A rough night, Mr. Moore," he said, rather crabbedly.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Inside, a crabbed script covered page after page, interspaced by occasional line drawings.
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The crabbed handwriting was identical to the one on the note.
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Wendy noted the crabbed scrawl of her uncle's signature immediately above the notarization seal, then read the introduction.
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Both father and son, in their crabbedness, may be recessionary personalities.
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His charming comedy about crabbed age and youth will be back in time for the holiday season.
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The painfully familiar Cyrillic letters were crabbed and uneven - as if battered by gales.
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I have again spent too long reading Klessa's crabbed writing.
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And his wrinkled, old visage expressed so crabbed a determination to remain unmoved that Mr. Haviland laughed outright in the most tolerant of humours.
That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
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The President crabbed about the leak in his Monday press conference.
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On the wall hung a framed letter in faded brown ink, written in a crabbed and spidery fist.
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The reader however cannot help wishing that he had taken some means to diminish the crabbedness of his style.
Guide to Stoicism
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Significantly, however, we need not view the verdicts in that deferential, crabbed way.
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He wrongly interprets _natural_ self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness.
Certain Success
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Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
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His efforts to explore the ethical basis of legal rules goes along with a more crabbed style than is usual with Roman lawyers.
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Thirty-four years after I made this crabbed notation - ‘Mr. Chapman and guest.’
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Why should the capital lose out because the rest of Britain is so crabbed and provincial in its attitude towards newcomers?
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And I made myself many kinds of spectators, from crabbed old maids and lean pantaloons to girls in boarding school and Greek boys of thousands of years ago.
CHAPTER XIII
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We thought that would be a better way to ring in the season than, say, crabbedly poking at a deck, angry and alone.
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Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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They are recording with their crabbed hands what they are saying, a full transcript of what may be occurring.
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That poem is about picking blackberries, reaching on and on, with your hands all scrabbed.
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And thus ended what, little as they knew it, was to be the last of their many confidential talks on the subject of Richard, his frowardness and crabbedness, his innate inability to fit himself to life.
Ultima Thule
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It was yankee crabbedness that gave Homer his grip on the idea he had in mind.
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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Noah has taken all the family's worries on himself, and he's in danger of turning into a crabbed old man.
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'They said worse than I did,' resumed Jacob, 'by a deal; they said, says they, she looks duced crabbed – she looks just as if she was always eating a sour apple, says the lady; she looks –'
Camilla
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He yanked the girl's tie, scrabbed her face, and shoved her.
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For those not fluent in Italian, I will paraphrase the definition before me in Il Duce's crabbed hand.
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She felt the attraction of libertine narrative in a less crabbed way than some of her better-known works might lead us to believe.
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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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We crabbed around a gum tree bole and hurried as fast as we could without splashing too loudly.
Fire The Sky
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A furry arm snaked out, hung a sign in a crabbed script, then whisked out of sight again.
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I ain't sure," said Mr. Wrenn, crabbedly, then shook hands warmly with the bookkeeper, to show there was nothing personal in his snippishness.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
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It's a crabbed, narrow, unforgiving quality that was alive and well particularly for a couple of decades after the war.
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From this it proceeds, that many times when they rise, their wits run a wool-gathering, and they are more inclined to look crabbedly, grumble and mumble, then to shew each other any signs of love and friendship: for an empty purse, makes a sorrowfull pate.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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They differ from earlier work, in a slight crabbedness of hand, a somewhat less generous use of space.
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Mr. James Jennings has favoured us with a copy of his _Ornithologia; or the Birds_, a poem; with copious _Notes; _ &c. The latter portion is to us the most interesting, especially as it contains an immense body of valuable research into the history and economy of birds, in a pleasant, piquant, anecdotical style, without any of the quaintness or crabbedness of scientific technicality.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829
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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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They crabbed their way down the pitch before No.8 forced his way over for the winning try.
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The crabbed, patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.
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He was a crabbedly honest old fellow, and a very skilful hunter.
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The interpreter translated this for Mesullam, but the soothsayer was all the while in the same suspicious and crabbed mood.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
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Klessa's handwriting, in particular, is too damnably crabbed.
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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Earlier, he attacked ‘all the crabbed, sour, anti-Europeans’ for ‘banging on about Europe becoming some kind of superstate’.
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This common mantra of crabbed Republicanism became mine also.
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Ballard and Babington, or plotting with Drake (for all they say she didn't) one of his raids, that long long forefinger tracing crooked courses through a crabbedly drawn map of the Indies and she smiling at the dots of cities that would burn.
No Great Magic
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One minute crabbed, spindly lines pick through the chords awkwardly, then suddenly there's a passage of effortless, fluid virtuosity.
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The uncertainty led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive.
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The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft.
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At least it was tenderness in her: in another person her voice and manner might have been taken for crabbedness and impatience.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
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You're left with a notebook page of highbrows, scribbled in a crabbed hand.
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Or lee-lang nights, wi 'crabbit leuks, [live-long, crabbed looks]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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As his bibliomania grew, his worst fears became confirmed; he wrote less and less, and more crabbedly and obscurely.
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They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them.
The Gray Dawn
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Well, we had a great time watching this show, and it made Martha's show seemed crabbed and small by comparison.
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Plotinus wrote these treatises in a crabbed and difficult Greek.
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The latter has the literary style of a crabbed academic philosophy professor.
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Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors.
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A Highlander in full regalia is an impressive sight-any Highlander, no matter how old, ill-favored, or crabbed in appearance.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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On the opening ‘Bent Blue’ Hall begins unaccompanied, his crabbed chords and spiky lead lines ringing over the chinks of glasses and the occasional cough.
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I know the area well, having fished and crabbed their for many years.
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It was expected of Colonel Wingate, the censor, that amid multifarious important responsibilities as chief of the Intelligence branch he should find time daily to peruse and correct tens of thousands of words, often crabbedly written, in press messages.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
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Now we are like the crabbed geezers we used to sing about.
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I felt crabbed and stinging-eyed and almost tore her head off.
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He quelled one incipient mutiny through sheer dominance, but it left him more short of temper, more crabbedly moody than ever.
Big Timber A Story of the Northwest
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That is why the young are fiery and righteous, and the old crabbedly mutter that there is no new thing under the sun.
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It is far too late in the day to impose a crabbed reading of the [establishment] clause on the country.
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American sense, as indicating a blend of currishness and crabbedness.
Pan-Islam
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Warner's highly complex line of argument, winding around so much material, and so tightly, produces a compacted, even crabbed architecture.
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Sustaining these views by a few footnotes, I add (1) a literal rendering of my own, and then (2) a metaphrase of the same, bringing out the argument from the crabbed obstructions of the Latin text.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Sir Walpole Crawley is looking from its black corner at the bare boards and the oiled fire-irons, and the empty card-racks over the mantelpiece: the cellaret has lurked away behind the carpet: the chairs are turned up heads and tails along the walls: and in the dark corner opposite the statue, is an old-fashioned crabbed knife-box, locked and sitting on a dumb waiter.
Vanity Fair
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In the end, however, such crabbedly utilitarian arguments simply fail to understand the historic significance of the parliament.
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“Na,” said the man quietly, “it's no religion, it's curstness,” i.e. crabbedness, insinuating that acerbity of temper, as well as zeal, was occasionally the cause of congregations being multiplied.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
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A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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She concluded they were deliberately deaf to her, and "Let them go!" she said crabbedly, flaunting an eloquent arm to the winds, comforting herself with the thought that there was no other house in all that dreary country to give them the shelter she had denied.
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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It wasn't as though they were written down on teeny little Post-Its in crabbed penmanship and stuck onto the shelves backwards.
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My essay was too labored, too long, too crabbedly written, and it brought me only half a third prize.
Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I
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If such voluntary tasks, pleasure and delight, or crabbedness of these studies, will not yet divert their idle thoughts, and alienate their imaginations, they must be compelled, saith Christophorus a
Anatomy of Melancholy
