(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.
Grumpily
Definition:
(adv.) In a surly manner; sullenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) But those countries still come to IGF and take part, albeit grumpily.
(2) Grudzinskas is speaking to me from Rome, and sounds tired and, occasionally, grumpily Australian.
(3) This is true of any decent diary, from the grumpily conservative Duke of Newcastle, whose obscure account of the passing of the Reform Act is a masterpiece of old reaction, to the outstanding diarists of the last century — crusty Tory MPs led by Chips Channon and Alan Clark, or Labour's Bernard Donoughue, chronicling the baroque mayhem of the later Wilson years.
(4) "These people were the enemy and everyone else was like 'Stephen's looovely '," he recalls, grumpily.
(5) Older men who always assumed that spending long periods of time away from their small children was the right thing to do, meanwhile, find themselves grumpily trying to hire younger ones who feel very differently.
(6) So now I'm sitting grumpily in a spaceship with my arms folded, wearing a stovepipe hat.
(7) Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal | Premier League match report Read more “It’s amazing that we have lost today,” he said grumpily.
(8) And suddenly there's another skirmish in the box as Ricketts reacts very, er, grumpily to that challenge from Schuler.
(9) Apparently not Read more Labour has a similar kind of army – engaged people who are brimming with enthusiasm, rather than simply grumpily opposed to the Tories – and it needs to use them to build a genuine social movement.
(10) Klinsmann has now sat back down, and is glowering grumpily from the bench.
(11) He says he found the more usual reaction - grumpily wallowing in the music of one's youth - equally unpalatable, and seems genuinely horrified by the suggestion that the music scene would be livened up considerably if he reformed the KLF.
(12) They are celebrating an non-relegation party in the changing room next door,” the Dortmund manager noted grumpily at the Weserstadion, “I wouldn’t write us off yet”.