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Meanings of crossness in anglès
Sinònims
Examples for "irritability"
Examples for "irritability"
1
Advances in the pharmacotherapy of irritability in ASD continue to inform practice.
2
Psychiatric adverse events comprised irritability, aggression, depression and psychosis in single cases.
3
But this afternoon it discovered an unusual vein of irritability in her.
4
It is due to what is called irritability or sensitiveness in plants.
5
With the crisis so near, irritability pricked Vaniman's state of nervous tension.
1
All the weakness of his moral nature came out in his petulance.
2
Joan did not smile at the feeble petulance of the half-distracted woman.
3
Waste no time in passion and petulance-thinkonly of your forfeited soul.
4
For the first time there sounded a petulance in the girl's voice.
5
All the petulance was gone from her expression-therestlessness from her manner.
1
His mind was palsied with his body; its utmost energy was peevishness.
2
Fine. He couldn't prevent the peevishness that had crept into his voice.
3
A disordered, or an over-loaded stomach, is a frequent cause of peevishness.
4
My invalid peevishness, too, has accentuated my sensitiveness to shades of refinement.
5
Hoddan scowled at Don Loris, whose expression of peevishness did not lighten.
1
And then the choler and the hot blood of his youth spoke.
2
Choleric he was, with the superficial and temporary choler of the schoolmaster.
3
Edward was choleric and stern in his choler, but judicious and politic.
4
I had had two years of color, choler, and passion in Karhide.
5
Sir Giles, who had some difficulty in controlling his choler, now spoke:-
1
Her weak fretfulness depressed all the vitalities near her; only Hester resisted.
2
She watched critically to see whether the cigar-light was puffed in fretfulness.
3
I think many artists operate from this pit of worry and fretfulness.
4
There is not a line on it of care or of fretfulness.
5
He had slipped into his more familiar suit of fretfulness and timidity.
1
In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2
This antiquated fussiness of the dilettante little nobleman was sickening to her.
3
We may grant that the fussiness of Sinclair told against his proposals.
4
She was all plump and giddy fussiness -innocentand full of frivolity.
5
Ashamed of his own fussiness, the Master went back to his work.
Usage of crossness in anglès
1
There was a distinct air of crossness about Laurie at this moment.
2
Why go along with crossness, and coldness and snappishness in your life?
3
She set it all down to what she was wont to call crossness.
4
Mrs. Moira ignored the edge of crossness in her Danny's voice.
5
Her voice betrayed a struggle between offended dignity and decided crossness.
6
That was what lay behind her sudden crossness when he had asked her.
7
Sometimes she was sorry for her crossness; more often she wasn't.
8
Mr. Thorne recovered from the child's crossness sooner than from Mr. Slope's laughter.
9
The fateful crossness of events pursues us through the world.
10
His crossness grew worse when he found himself separated from her during the ceremony.
11
To her he made ample apology for his former crossness, and received ample absolution.
12
There wasn't much crossness or boredom about him this time.
13
I was afraid I had made him angry; yet it wasn't a look of crossness.
14
That smoothed out the crossness and woke him up.
15
And I am vexed his crossness affects me so.
16
He remembered Aunt Barbara's salutary remarks about crossness being the equivalent of thinking about oneself.
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United Kingdom
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