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, who had no fears of being daubed, kissed them with pleasure, wishing to make amends to them for his crossness.
From The Joy of Captain Ribot by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
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 Alexander, Rev. Gross
"Then you are come to ask pardon for all your crossness, your savagery of this morning?"
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
But in her relief at knowing she was able to move and speak Mona did not mind granny's crossness.
From The Making of Mona by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
