How To Use Crabbed In A Sentence
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This common mantra of crabbed Republicanism became mine also.
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Plotinus wrote these treatises in a crabbed and difficult Greek.
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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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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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As his bibliomania grew, his worst fears became confirmed; he wrote less and less, and more crabbedly and obscurely.
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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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You're left with a notebook page of highbrows, scribbled in a crabbed hand.
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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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The crabbedness of old age or misfortune was evidently looked upon as witchcraft.
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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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One minute crabbed, spindly lines pick through the chords awkwardly, then suddenly there's a passage of effortless, fluid virtuosity.
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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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The latter has the literary style of a crabbed academic philosophy professor.
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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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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Klessa's handwriting, in particular, is too damnably crabbed.
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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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He was a crabbedly honest old fellow, and a very skilful hunter.
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The crabbed, patient experimenting of these Arab alchemists spread into the Christian world.
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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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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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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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They differ from earlier work, in a slight crabbedness of hand, a somewhat less generous use of space.
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American sense, as indicating a blend of currishness and crabbedness.
Pan-Islam
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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
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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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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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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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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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“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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In the end, however, such crabbedly utilitarian arguments simply fail to understand the historic significance of the parliament.
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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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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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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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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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It is far too late in the day to impose a crabbed reading of the [establishment] clause on the country.
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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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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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I felt crabbed and stinging-eyed and almost tore her head off.
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Now we are like the crabbed geezers we used to sing about.
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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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I know the area well, having fished and crabbed their for many years.
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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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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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Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors.
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The crabbed handwriting was identical to the one on the note.
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He wrongly interprets _natural_ self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness.
Certain Success
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Significantly, however, we need not view the verdicts in that deferential, crabbed way.
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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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On the wall hung a framed letter in faded brown ink, written in a crabbed and spidery fist.
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The President crabbed about the leak in his Monday press conference.
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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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I have again spent too long reading Klessa's crabbed writing.
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The painfully familiar Cyrillic letters were crabbed and uneven - as if battered by gales.
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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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Both father and son, in their crabbedness, may be recessionary personalities.
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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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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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Inside, a crabbed script covered page after page, interspaced by occasional line drawings.
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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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But this crabbed, Hobbesian spirit of social Darwinism has been bested before, and we can overcome it again.
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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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Atop the videocassette was a note penned in blue ink in my brother's surprisingly crabbed handwriting.
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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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These are, of course, the sour thoughts of a crabbed and incorrigible old cynic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A furry arm snaked out, hung a sign in a crabbed script, then whisked out of sight again.
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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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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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Handsome Adam sat next to Old Adam and whispered in his old, crabbed ear.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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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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For those not fluent in Italian, I will paraphrase the definition before me in Il Duce's crabbed hand.
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He yanked the girl's tie, scrabbed her face, and shoved her.
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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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She crabbed again when he didn't take advantage of the multi-laned road.
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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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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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That poem is about picking blackberries, reaching on and on, with your hands all scrabbed.
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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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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 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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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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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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Thirty-four years after I made this crabbed notation - ‘Mr. Chapman and guest.’
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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.