crabbed
adjective
crabbedness
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a word derived from
crabbed.
Example Sentences
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A certain crabbedness entered his nature through his sense of frustration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
This remark had filled the then thirteen-year-old girl with all the savage instincts of a bound and fettered woman, with all the crabbedness of an unimaginative person of her standing.
From The Goose Man by Allen Wilson Porterfield
The reader however cannot help wishing that he had taken some means to diminish the crabbedness of his style.
From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock
It differs from the doggerel of the Fairy Pastoral in making no apparent attempt at scansion at all, and so at least escapes the crabbedness of Percy's language.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
