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

There's been no nerve frettin' nor crossness since the mistress was called—not once.

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

You won’t always be poor little Hatty, whose back aches, and who is so cross; there is no pain nor crossness in the lovely land where all things are new.”

From Our Bessie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Aurora cared little either for his advice or his anger, and had soon formed intimacies which quite consoled her for his fits of crossness.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

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