Crossword-Solution: CROSSNESS 9 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Crossness n. The quality or state of being cross; peevishness;
fretfulness; ill humor.

We have 13 clues for the answer “CROSSNESS”

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mordancy 9 answers
quick passions 10 answers
churlishness 10 answers
surliness 11 answers
Give pain. 12 answers
Hot temper 12 answers
Sourness 18 answers
irascibility 20 answers
roughness 45 answers
Spleen 46 answers
Asperity 48 answers
Gall 57 answers
Harshness 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CROSSNESS (5)

And I must say that Lucy’s crossness not to take them along with them in the chaise is worse than all.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
Crump was a little cross sometimes; for there is a good kind of crossness that is only disagreeable, and there is a bad kind of crossness that is very nasty indeed.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 2008
The writer had a wish to be of service to this man, as he was one of those who came off to the floating light in the month of September 1807, while she was riding at single anchor after the severe gale of the 7th, at a time when it was hardly possible to make up this vessel’s crew; but the crossness of his manner prevented his reaping the benefit of such intentions.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
Things became so feverish that for the sake of rest and peace the house-party proposed to contribute to a joint purse for the return of the dog, as even, nuisance as it was, it was not so bad as having their visit spoiled by Miss Arnett's abandonment to grief and crossness.
Episodes in Van Bibber's Life Richard Harding Davis 2008
Prince! what can you be thinking of? You are the silliest boy I ever knew.” “Am I?” said he absently, and never heeding her crossness; for his only anxiety was lest she might find out anything.
The Little Lame Prince Miss Mulock--Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik 2006

Quotes with CROSSNESS (1)

She'd been cross so much of the time and often about small things. Looking back at herself, she thought that her crossness was like a shapeless overcoat, covering loneliness, and it wasn't the old loneliness she'd felt after her mother died, or even an adult version of it, but something different and more punishing.
Rosamund Lupton The Quality of Silence
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Appears in: Newsday.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).