How To Use crabbedness In A Sentence
- The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal.
- Both father and son, in their crabbedness, may be recessionary personalities.
- The reader however cannot help wishing that he had taken some means to diminish the crabbedness of his style. Guide to Stoicism
- He wrongly interprets _natural_ self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness. Certain Success
- 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
- 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
- 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
- They differ from earlier work, in a slight crabbedness of hand, a somewhat less generous use of space.
- 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
- The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft.
