What's the difference between crossly and grouchily?
Crossly
Definition:
(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.