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 it did help, truly, that is, as regards the hiccoughs, not as regards the crossness.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
And his flurry included a certain crossness and impatience with Amory.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
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
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
