half-angry

Both versions of this strange show share the same half-angry, half-kidding banter between the spouses as we gripe at each other with smiles on our faces.

Impressions From A 240-Hour Sojourn scouseboy 2006

Then it contained a pressing letter of mine to him, urging my escape before my master came; with his half-angry answer to me.

Pamela 2006

I have this half-angry answer; but, what is more to me than all the letters in the world could be, yours, my dear father, enclosed.

Pamela 2006

She was half-angry with him in the carriage and said something, about meretricious manners.

Barchester Towers 2004

At last that struggle for coherence ceased, the half-blank, half-angry look yielded to something deeper, the lips moved.

Swan Song 2004

It came partly from jealousy, as though she had said to herself, ‘Though he may neglect me, he shall know that there is someone else who does not;’ — and partly from an eager half-angry feeling that she would have nothing concealed.

The Duke's Children 2004

The new-comer heaved a mighty sigh, accompanied by a half-angry, half-sorrowful exclamation; but the other, without giving him any opportunity to reply, resumed:

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

Dawn pulled away from his mouth and stared at him in hurt and half-angry confusion.

The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

Dawn pulled away from his mouth and stared at him in hurt and half-angry confusion.

The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003

For a tense moment they regarded each other — Marjorie scornful, aloof; Bernice astounded, half-angry, half-afraid.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003