Crossword-Solution: CROSSNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crossness | n. | The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “CROSSNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
ERETA
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).