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 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 Rosa Nouchette Carey
The crossness of the mother was soon finished.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I, who had no fears of being daubed, kissed them with pleasure, wishing to make amends to them for his crossness.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Armando Palacio Vald?s
All his crossness, all his unreasonableness, all his fault-finding—which is natural enough, poor old soul—just rolls off her good nature like water off a duck's back.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks
