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
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
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
They may be dull, slow, cross at times, ill-informed, but you feel there is something that outweighs dulness, crossness, want of information.
From Old Kensington by Miss Thackeray
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
