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

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 Thackeray, Miss

The familiar grumbling provoked only a smile from the master, who would readily have staked his life on the woman’s devotion to “her people” and knew that the apparent crossness was not that in reality.

From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn

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 Anstey, F.

Pierson forgot her crossness in trying to comfort him.

From The Boys and I by Molesworth, Mrs.