crossly
- r in an ill-natured manner
she looked at her husband crossly
- Bob, said Arline somewhat crossly, was using the Connecticut courts "as a tool to enable him to exchange one wife for another.
- War Manpower Commission retorted that manufacturers had made no requests for manpower, crossly added that they probably would not get it if they did.
- One extreme left-winger told me, crossly: "Even Finnish Socialists prefer to make small reforms in the existing capitalist system rather than change it for a new system.