cross-grained
Collocations
4ADJ.
companion, harsh, old
CROSS-GRAINED + NOUN
professor, summerlee
PREP.
in
ADV.
such
Definitions
adj
Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome.
It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.
It was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — of timber
- curly-grained
- wavy-grained
adjective — difficult to deal with
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.
WiktionaryIt was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
WiktionaryFor five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door. His heart was beating violently. He had risked all on this throw. How would they decide? And all the while that this agonized questi
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