Sentence example with the word 'crabbedness'

crabbedness

Definition n. a disposition to be ill-tempered

Last update: June 16, 2015


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At one moment she was doing the gaiety of youth, and at the next the crabbedness of age; now the undeveloped femininity of the young girl, then the volubility of the old woman.   [Please select]

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Its pith may be found in Sydney Smith's _Noodle's Oration_; but it is itself well worth reading by any one who can recognise really admirable dialectical power, and forgive a little crabbedness of style in consideration of genuine intellectual vigour.   [Please select]

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The reader however cannot help wishing that he had taken some means to diminish the crabbedness of his style.   [Please select]

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