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
I don't say she would prevent me," returns the lord of Surrenden, with some crossness, "but it's the kind of life one gets into that kills all that sort of thing in one.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
John was always an ass,” said Sir Robert, with a crossness which sprang chiefly from the fact that the temperature of the room was higher than usual, and the habits of his evening interfered with.
From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
The familiar grumbling provoked only a smile from the master, who would readily have staked his life on the woman’s devotion to “her people” and knew that the apparent crossness was not that in reality.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn
An unwonted crossness had come upon him, and his soft eyes burned with a blue fire.
From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison
