crabbed

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  • Blunt, crabbed writing suggests obstinacy and a selfish love of power, without thought for the feelings of others. 

  • Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text, Still there's the comment. 

  • Pray sit down, Mr. Newton—taking a chair as she spoke, while she read the small, crabbed, tremulous characters written on the page presented to her. 

  • The ink is faded and brown, and the writing is often crabbed and difficult to read. 

  • Then they were in the very middle of a crabbed pamphlet, in which Ivan's superior knowledge of German had been invaluable. 

  • It has done it very well, but it has been curbed and crabbed in its activities and its programme is behind schedule.

  • In the light of the problems of 1959–60 the words about which we complain are somewhat crabbed, unimaginative and restrictive in their scope.

  • One must also take into account that, "crabbed age and youth cannot live together".

  • That is a cramped, crabbed view of who should represent the public interest.

  • I am sure that there were some ideas of his own struggling to emerge from that rather crabbed prose.

  • How the vision of youth can fall prey to crabbed middle age!

  • It is a depressing, crabbed and mean picture.

  • We do not want crabbed specialists.

  • Stylistically, the discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jottings.

  • Sometimes called amateurish, it is densely drawn and washed, often with a large amount of text in a somewhat crabbed handwriting.

  • The current neglect may have as much to do with the notorious critics crabbed, sometimes contradictory and dogmatic style.

  • I think it does apply to the debate about religion, in that it's a crabbed novelist who pulls the shutters down and says, there's no other thing.

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