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Meanings of crossness in English
Usage of crossness in English
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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