crossness
Example Sentences
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I decided it would do to convey a mixture of can-you-believe-it crossness and wrenching disappointment, selected it, added zilch and pressed send.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2014
"Might there not have been another reason for the crossness, supposing it to have existed?" said she, quietly.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
It would have been better had he felt more free to be irritated; one should not have to feel frightened at a little bit of one's own bad temper—appalled at crossness, at hours of ennui.
From Fidelity A Novel by Susan Glaspell
"Then you are come to ask pardon for all your crossness, your savagery of this morning?"
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
They may be dull, slow, cross at times, ill-informed, but you feel there is something that outweighs dulness, crossness, want of information.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
