Crossword-Solution: CROSSGRAINED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crossgrained | a. | Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. |
| Crossgrained | a. | Perverse; untractable; contrary. |
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| out of humor | 26 answers |
| BLACK ___ | 123 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with CROSSGRAINED (5)
For want of self-restraint, many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own crossgrained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.
She had an ideal of fatherhood, had gentle, silent, useless Lydia--formed upon the genial, sunshiny type of parent popular in books, and she cast a romantic veil over disappointed, selfish, crossgrained Malcolm Monroe and delighted in little daughterly attentions to him.
Does that satisfy you, you crossgrained old shellfish? Come on, let's dig clams--some of your own blood relations--and forget it.” “I don't want to forget it and there is plenty of time for clamming.
These are grounds for believing that legislators, while exhorting to virtue and putting certain courses of conduct forward as right and honourable, in the expectation that good men will obey the call, as their habits lead them, should at the same time inflict chastisements and punishments upon the crossgrained and disobedient; and as for the incurably vicious, put them beyond the pale altogether.
Etym: [See Knar, Gnar.] Defn: A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.
Quotes with CROSSGRAINED (1)
[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.