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“These are difficulties which you must settle for yourself. Chuse your own degree of crossness. I shall press you no more.”

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She said Grenfell had "always been a bad tempered place and for some reason that general crossness has lingered and is stoked by various individuals and their agendas".

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“Gossip suggests adenoidal radio anarchist Howard Stern was involved. Britney reacts with predictable crossness. ‘It’s a disgusting offer,’ she told one newspaper.

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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.

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To meet criticism with kindness, crossness with geniality, insult with courtesy, and injury with charity is the way to conquer the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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