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Crossgrained   Listen
adjective
Crossgrained  adj.  
1.
Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely and irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. "If the stuff proves crossgrained,... then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way."
2.
Perverse; untractable; contrary; difficult to deal with.
Synonyms: balky, contrarious. "She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades."





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"Crossgrained" Quotes from Famous Books



... silence. I was too ruffled and crossgrained to talk to him, but I could not keep myself from watching him. His eyes were less sad than I had thought. I could imagine that they might easily be merry. But they were watchful eyes. He saw the discontent among the men, and finally ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith
... he lay smoking his pipe, "'tis a pity that there's no pleasure in this world without something crossgrained into it. My own feelin's is as if I had been lately passed through ...
— Martin Rattler • R.M. Ballantyne


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