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Значения термина crabbedness на английском

A disposition to be ill-tempered.

Использование термина crabbedness на английском
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Out of its crabbedness and spitefulness come the finest, choicest flavors.
Locusts and Wild Honey
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Accustomed to a written character, their eyes became wearied by the crabbedness and formality of type.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 18...
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There was heart, then, under all his crabbedness.
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
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Of the crabbedness of Harry Lawes there is scarcely a trace: that belonged to an era of experiments.
Purcell
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She said this so sweetly that Mrs. Goodenough relaxed into a smile, and her crabbedness into a compliment.
Wives and Daughters
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The reader however cannot help wishing that he had taken some means to diminish the crabbedness of his style.
A Guide to Stoicism
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At least it was tenderness in her: in another person her voice and manner might have been taken for crabbedness and impatience.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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The occasional crabbedness of his manner and his fiery admiration for Italy are not the only points in which he reminds one of Browning.
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
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It was postmarked "New York," but the hand was large and round and flourished, not in the least like his uncle's sexagenarian crabbedness of hieroglyphic.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
Crabbedness через время