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

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

He said he felt sick, and believed he wuz threatened with numony, but he wuzn’t; it wuz only madness and crossness, that kinder stuffs anybody up some like tizik.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

An unwonted crossness had come upon him, and his soft eyes burned with a blue fire.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison

The crossness of the mother was soon finished.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)