| 词汇 | crabbed |
| 释义 | crabbed adjective old-fashioneduk /kræbd//ˈkræb.ɪd/ us /kræbd//ˈkræb.ɪd/ Crabbed writing is written too closely together and therefore difficult to read.（字迹）潦草的，难认的 Describing handwriting & print asemic autographic chicken scratch crossed cursively handwritten indecipherable joined up jot legibility legible legibly non-character pencilled spidery uncrossed undecipherable undeciphered writing written 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. Examples of crabbedcrabbed It has done it very well, but it has been curbed and crabbed in its activities and its programme is behind schedule. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the light of the problems of 1959–60 the words about which we complain are somewhat crabbed, unimaginative and restrictive in their scope. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One must also take into account that, "crabbed age and youth cannot live together". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is a cramped, crabbed view of who should represent the public interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that there were some ideas of his own struggling to emerge from that rather crabbed prose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How the vision of youth can fall prey to crabbed middle age! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a depressing, crabbed and mean picture. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want crabbed specialists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Stylistically, the discourse veers abruptly from passages of sublime purple prose to crabbed note-book jottings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometimes called amateurish, it is densely drawn and washed, often with a large amount of text in a somewhat crabbed handwriting. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The current neglect may have as much to do with the notorious critics crabbed, sometimes contradictory and dogmatic style. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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