cross
"Did you hear me, Mum?" he asked crossly.
Many passengers had crossly made alternative arrangements.
She glanced at him crossly.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Angry and displeased
acridly
acrimonious
acrimoniously
aggrieved
amused
fed up
fed up to the back teethidiom
fired up
fit to be tiedidiom
fractiously
not be a happy camperidiom
outraged
peeved
piqued
pissed off
venomous
warpath
wound up
wrathful
wrathfully

Examples of crossly

crossly
She came out so unexpectedly and stared down at the children so crossly that she seemed taller than she was.
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When he was gone around the corner of the kitchen, the little girl left her high bench and sat down crossly upon the door-step.
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She put it down crossly on the desk in the middle of the untidy papers.
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She turned crossly upon her when she appeared.
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Crossly she yanked the bottle out of the warm sand and raised her arm to toss it into the lake.
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That made him impatient with even his mother, and he often answered her quite crossly.
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The boy still spoke crossly, aggrievedly, but every trace of displeasure had fled from the little girl's face at his words.
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There had been times when they had spoken crossly.
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Only once did he speak crossly to the monkey, and that was when he put him into the cage preparatory to commencing his morning's work.
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And he had been such a brute to snap her up so crossly!
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It looked so eager, so hungry, she told herself crossly, to be early.
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It was soon evident that the old man was an unwelcome guest, for even the bartender looked at him crossly.
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He turned away to hang up his overcoat and tried to speak crossly.
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He said it rather crossly, for his nerves were what he called edgy, and the girl still irritated him.
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She turned and whisked crossly out of the room.
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