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Definition of Crotchetiness

1. Noun. A fussy and eccentric disposition.

Definition of Crotchetiness

1. n. The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.

Definition of Crotchetiness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being crotchety. ¹

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Definition of Crotchetiness

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotchetiness

Literary usage of Crotchetiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1892)
"... be thought to be distorted by that ' crotchetiness ' which Mr. Fiske, for one, always sees in M. ..."

2. The American Commonwealth by James Bryce Bryce (1908)
"To minds of an opposite cast they gave it a flavour of sentimental- ism, crotchetiness, and of what used to be called in America "radicalism. ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1878)
"For the literary peculiarity of the book is a perfectly amazing crotchetiness, together with a continual now of ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"principles with a certain mathematical rigidity which excluded all possibility of compromise and gave ground for the charge of crotchetiness on some ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"... i " crotchetiness." But he hit straight and hit : They would have to make this concession. Let ib.: make it so as to get all the good, and strain oat ..."

6. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"And with this was connected much of that very peculiar habit of mind which we can call by no better name than that of crotchetiness, which above all others ..."

7. Proceedings (1883)
"... exists producing a reaction from the old-fashioned indifference into the opposite extreme of crotchetiness, resulting from imperfect knowledge. ..."

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