crossness
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 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
Yes––one can only bear so much happiness, then it is weariness––sometimes crossness.
From An Orkney Maid by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
After that we thought perhaps these petty officials dressed in a little brief authority only put on their crossness with their uniforms.
From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis
An unwonted crossness had come upon him, and his soft eyes burned with a blue fire.
From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison
All his crossness, all his unreasonableness, all his fault-finding—which is natural enough, poor old soul—just rolls off her good nature like water off a duck's back.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
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