This can be described as crabbed, misbegotten, petty technicality. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
The "crabbed" data on hourly earnings should be replaced with data on all employees and include all wage/salary/benefit disbursements. From Wordnik.com. [Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning] Reference
In th 'first Sol doth in crabbed Cancer shine. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
Carnanton, the old-time abode of William Noye, the "crabbed". From Wordnik.com. [The Cornish Riviera] Reference
I suppose, in a kind of crabbed way, the crabbed fellow was fond of Phyllis. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
One of the rowers in the other boat had "crabbed" his oar and lost it overboard, or the colonel's plan would have succeeded. From Wordnik.com. [Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives] Reference
She will obey this crabbed veteran's behest and enjoy. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
It is written in a small and crabbed hand unlike that of. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts] Reference
Certainly Plutarch's style is often very harsh and crabbed. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The crabbed and distorted characters of the last words which. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
"Aw, this is ridiculous!" she crabbed in a thick Bronx accent. From Wordnik.com. [Will They Think My Pen Is A Sword?] Reference
Hamid turned and crabbed over sideways to pick up a basketball. From Wordnik.com. [Shirts and Skins] Reference
Mrs. Hamilton and Mrs. Mercy Warren both call Lee "a crabbed man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
She heard crabbed, sour, but courageous old Williams go to the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
I am crabbed and prejudiced and critical, and I dislike irregularity. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
"Well, I won't when I get to be as old and crabbed as -- father," said. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
It was written with a pen in a crabbed hand, and the sum and substance of it was this. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Our driver was a crabbed old fellow, but we managed to extract some amusement out of him. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
This was what he read in a rather crabbed hand, though the writing could be read fairly well. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
Be pleasant, don't be cross and crabbed because someone else in the household is not pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
Another alcove was vacant; a crabbed manuscript, just laid down by the writer, was on the desk. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
I have made great friends with all the sailors, and they are very nice fellows, all but one crabbed old. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
His language indeed has an antiquated air, and some of his expressions are rather too harsh and crabbed. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
A boy has no perception whatsoever of the poetry of farm-life: he considers a woodman's work crabbed prose. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Baldassare was good to her -- better than you would have believed possible in such a crabbed old stub of a man. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
There was something about the whole face as crabbed, sour, and unkind as if she had daily bathed it in vinegar. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The walls were clean, even spotless, except for some defiant aphorisms and Persian poetry in small, crabbed handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes] Reference
"I'm sure Amasa Culpepper would say it was his own crabbed handwriting to a fraction," Carl had no hesitation in asserting. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts of Lenox] Reference
Meanwhile the two Miss Dills grew more and more sour and crabbed until the girls began to wonder "why they didn't die of it.". From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
Young fellows instead of having homes of their own are supporting two or three grown-up sisters and getting crabbed and bitter. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
And very keenly and bitterly had she been made to feel during those first few months her dependence upon the crabbed old miller. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
Mr. Brown often hired Mr. Foswick to do carpentry, and the rather crabbed and cross old man did not want to offend a good customer. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference
One tree is harsh and crabbed, another mild; one is churlish and illiberal, another exhausts itself with its free-hearted bounties. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
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