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

She had, no doubt, often seen the child punished in this way for crossness; and as there was no one near to administer correction, puss had determined to take the law into her own hand.”

From Minnie's Pet Cat by Leslie, Madeline

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

Yes, for crossness and unpolite words and messing at table and—lots of things.

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

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