例文・使い方で印象づける「crabbed」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Of all the old “curmudgeons”on earth, deliver me from crabbed, narrow-minded,pinch-penny, miserable misers... 
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
...Some are crabbed, some beggarly,some—in short, the best of them are sure to bring more care thanthey are worth, and are mostly too heavy for the shoulders thathave to bear them...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...But the crabbed characters of M...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...The said philanthropist made a hobbyof the French and British prisoners returned from Germany, and had in mind anofficer, a crabbed South African with a bad leg, who needed a servant...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
... "I was treated monstrous bad; my master was a very cross, crabbed man, and his wife was as cross as he was...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...He drinks hard, he is just like a rattlesnake, just as cross and crabbed when he speaks, seems like he could go through you...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...William said that his master was a man of very savage temper, short, and crabbed...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...In his review allusion was made not only to his master, but also to his mistress, in which he said that she was "a quarrelsome and crabbed woman, middling stout...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...The Place's acreage ended, to northward, in the center of an oak grovewhose northern half was owned by one Titus Romaine; a crabbed littlefarmer of the old school...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...In cold and ungenial districts, the seedlings are mostly sour and crabbed, but in more favorable soils they are oftener mild and sweet...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...It is harmless as a dog or cat except when crossed by children, when it will snarl, snap, and bite like the most crabbed cur...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...But we have been betrayed by a pot-bellied, humpbacked, and crabbed dwarf...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...Healso crabbed about your artists...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...That was many, many years ago,as the crabbed, uncertain writingon these pages proves...
Sewell Peaslee Wright 「Vampires of Space」
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