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

You know, I was only pretending crossness, Cameron, all the time, because I really thought it was best.

From The Talking Horse And Other Tales by Anstey, F.

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

Yes––one can only bear so much happiness, then it is weariness––sometimes crossness.

From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

At first he had growled with crossness, but now he began to whine from frightenness.

From Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales by Metelerkamp, Sanni