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
And his flurry included a certain crossness and impatience with Amory.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
"Might there not have been another reason for the crossness, supposing it to have existed?" said she, quietly.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
But in her relief at knowing she was able to move and speak Mona did not mind granny's crossness.
From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
Michael was overcome by his mother's crossness and said no more.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
