(adv.) Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here they look at you very crossly if you do that,” says Kinan, 21.
(2) In all cases segmental resections with a rim of crossly normal tissue around the primary of at least 2 cm were simulated.
(3) A lot of people on the internet swear they aren't going to buy one either - at the end of every single iPad article going, in fact, often quite crossly (as in "WTF!
(4) OK, well, first of all, Owen’s a very ambitious man,” adding with a dry chuckle, “He’s very evidently taken the opportunity that’s been presented.” That said, he would “absolutely not” call Owen “Blairite-lite”, and says crossly, “I think it’s a stupid phrase to use.
(5) The remuneration committee chair fought back crossly: they have to pay these sums because everyone else does, but "only the most discerning will appreciate this".
(6) She was one of several to retweet a twitterer's jibe at the highest profile loser: "I suppose we will never know how many people have just dropped their unfinished Hollinghurst novels crossly on the floor."
(7) "You'll have to wait until the next book," responds Martin, crossly.
(8) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
(9) He’s not a leader, is he?” said the man crossly, after being interrupted while doing DIY.
(10) Protein bands of 7 kDa in HF and 15, 10 and 7 kDa in CF did not react crossly and were specific components in respective antigens.
(11) "It is not the way I would have chosen to spend my Sunday evening," he said crossly, referring to the weekend leak on Guido Fawkes' website of Alastair Campbell's witness statement, three days before he was due to deliver it in person.
(12) He was the greatest cross-examiner of such experts ("the art of cross-examination is not to examine crossly") and many alleged murderers owed their liberty to his ability to draw out a doubt in the apparently closed mind.
(13) The tourist information is closed, as is the police station, so we make enquiries at the chemist’s next door, where a “fully medically trained” pharmacist is disappointed that neither of us require her to diagnose a fatal rash, and directs us rather crossly to the path to San Fruttuoso.
(14) Pausing rather crossly on her front path, she said: "One can get more excited", and went on to observe that since she had already won all the other prizes in Europe, this was "a royal flush".
(15) All the big subjects were hit upon but Bush would wiggle crossly away, still wearing his criticism-repelling cloak of self-righteousness.
Grossly
Definition:
(adv.) In a gross manner; greatly; coarsely; without delicacy; shamefully; disgracefully.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(2) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
(3) There was no statistically significant difference between the figures obtained by the 2 methods, except for pharmaceutical expenditures (P = 0.005) which were grossly underevaluated by the program.
(4) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.
(5) Radiologically, the clavicles, the sternum and the first ribs are grossly enlarged with complete fusion between them.
(6) Our studies have revealed that patients with Cystic Fibrosis CF who are infected with P. aeruginosa have grossly elevated serum levels of IgG antibodies to the opsonic immunodeterminant, type-specific LPS.
(7) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(8) Several extrastriate areas have been found to contain maps of the contralateral visual hemifield that are disorderly in the sense that the representation of various parts of the visual field are often misplaced or grossly over-or under-represented.
(9) Calcific deposits were seen grossly as small punctate white masses from day 7 after implantation, progressively becoming more extensive.
(10) In the absence of other contraindications such as a grossly evident purulent infection, an abdominal aortic aneurysm infected by C. fetus may represent a subset of infected aneurysms that can be treated successfully with an anatomically placed prosthetic graft and antibiotics.
(11) When spared the hemorrhage, these regions appear intact grossly and in paraffin sections, but were found to be significantly altered in Epon sections.
(12) Woven bone formation is commonly observed when grossly altered loading conditions are imposed upon living bone tissue.
(13) In the group of mild diabetics, insulin response to glucose was enhanced by sulphonylureas only to a modest extent, the dose-response curves remaining grossly abnormal.
(14) There’s been a sharp rise in the number of death sentences and executions since Sisi came to power, some of which have taken place after grossly unfair trials.
(15) The megakaryocyte, however, remains responsive and the hypothesis advanced is that under these circumstances the intermenstrual platelet increase, normally caused by the interplay of the sex hormones, becomes grossly exaggerated.
(16) In four lymphoma tissue was finally demonstrable in the liver, but in two liver biopsy showed only minor non-specific changes despite grossly abnormal liver function tests.
(17) In a patient with right temporal lobe and additional right basal ganglia damage following a stroke, recognition and reproduction of simple rhythmical Gestalten were examined and found grossly undisturbed.
(18) Grossly, and in part microscopically, this case resembled malignant diffuse mesothelioma, indicating that pericardial angiosarcoma may sometimes mimick malignant mesothelioma.
(19) It is suggested that electron microscopic examination of lining cells of cystic lesions which are considered grossly consistent with lymphagiomas may yield additional similar cases.
(20) FNH and LCA are distinguishable grossly, microscopically, and ultrastructurally.