Definitions for crossness

crossness cross·ness

Spelling: [kraws-nis, kros-]
IPA: /ˈkrɔs nɪs, ˈkrɒs-/

Crossness is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 163 anagrams from letters in crossness (cenorssss).

Definitions for crossness

noun

  1. the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.

Origin of crossness

First recorded in 1590-1600; cross + -ness

Examples for crossness

And I must say that Lucy's crossness not to take them along with them in the chaise is worse than all.

Then you are come to ask pardon for all your crossness, your savagery of this morning?

At first he had growled with crossness, but now he began to whine from frightenness.

I was afraid I had made him angry; yet it wasn't a look of crossness.

Might there not have been another reason for the crossness, supposing it to have existed?

Hal forgot his crossness in a minute; he felt so proud and honoured.

There's been no nerve frettin' nor crossness since the mistress was called—not once.

"The demon of crossness seems to have haunted you this morning," said Margery.

I'm not used to be cross, and my own crossness is much harder to bear than theirs.

The lady's manner was a happy mixture of frigidity and crossness.

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