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
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 Glaspell, Susan
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 Thackeray, Miss
Yes––one can only bear so much happiness, then it is weariness––sometimes crossness.
From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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 Alexander, Rev. Gross
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
