Thesaurus / crossgrained
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synonyms for crossgrained
- bumpy
- choppy
- coarse
- fuzzy
- harsh
- rocky
- rugged
- bearded
- broken
- chapped
- disheveled
- jagged
- nappy
- ridged
- ruffled
- sharp
- tangled
- tousled
- wrinkled
- asperous
- brambly
- bristly
- bushy
- cragged
- craggy
- cross-grained
- hairy
- knobby
- knotty
- nodular
- not smooth
- scabrous
- scraggy
- shaggy
- stony
- tufted
- unequal
- unfinished
- unlevel
- unshaven
- unshorn
- woolly
- wrinkly
- capricious
- delinquent
- errant
- erratic
- headstrong
- rebellious
- recalcitrant
- unruly
- aberrant
- arbitrary
- balky
- changeable
- contumacious
- cross-grained
- disobedient
- disorderly
- fickle
- flighty
- fractious
- froward
- immoral
- inconstant
- incorrigible
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- ornery
- perverse
- refractory
- restive
- self-indulgent
- self-willed
- stubborn
- uncompliant
- undependable
- ungovernable
- unpredictable
- unstable
- variable
- whimsical
- willful
- cantankerous
- crusty
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ornery
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- contrary
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- cross-grained
- curmudgeonly
- difficult
- disagreeable
- eccentric
- fractious
- irritable
- obstinate
- obstreperous
- odd
- peevish
- queer
- surly
- testy
- unusual
- vinegary
- waspish
- waspy
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How to use crossgrained in a sentence
You don't mean to say that that crossgrained surly old fellow is the author of the famous ballads!
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 64, NO. 397, NOVEMBER 1848VARIOUSAn auld, crossgrained, faut-finding wife, that I ne'er could hae patience to endure for ten minutes in my days!
WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS AND OF SCOTLANDVARIOUSNothing altered by time, she was the same crabbed, crossgrained-looking personage I remembered years before.
TOM BURKE OF "OURS", VOLUME II (OF II)CHARLES JAMES LEVERMoreover, she had so crossgrained a disposition that Job himself could not have tolerated her.
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