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
How disposed are we to lay our crossness and roughness to the charge of our health, our dyspepsia or neuralgia or nervousness.
From Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work by Rev. Gross Alexander
Michael was overcome by his mother's crossness and said no more.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
The crossness of the mother was soon finished.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
"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
