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

Michael was overcome by his mother's crossness and said no more.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

After that we thought perhaps these petty officials dressed in a little brief authority only put on their crossness with their uniforms.

From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis

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

He said he felt sick, and believed he wuz threatened with numony, but he wuzn’t; it wuz only madness and crossness, that kinder stuffs anybody up some like tizik.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta