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
The occasional crabbedness of his manner and his fiery admiration for Italy are not the only points in which he reminds one of Browning.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
He wrongly interprets natural self-defense as a sign of habitual crabbedness.
From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins
He spoke of one Mary Oliver as “a poor wretch;” also of Mrs. Hibbins as “the miserable old woman,” and specified the “natural crabbedness of her temper which made her turbulent and quarrelsome.”
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
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
