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
How disposed are we to lay our crossness and roughness to the charge of our health, our dyspepsia or neuralgia or nervousness.
From Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work by Rev. Gross Alexander
Her crossness did not extend to Candace, however.
From A Little Country Girl by Susan Coolidge
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 F. Anstey
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
