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
I don't say she would prevent me," returns the lord of Surrenden, with some crossness, "but it's the kind of life one gets into that kills all that sort of thing in one.
From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida
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
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 Banks, Nancy Huston
Oh, dear! it was nothing but scolding and crossness.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
