crabbedness
- 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
A freedom, both from girlish frivolities, and old-maidish crabbedness and prudery. '6th.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
He wrongly interprets natural self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
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 Porterfield, Allen Wilson
