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Definition of cross-grained in English: cross-grainedadjective ˈkrɒsɡreɪndˈkrɔsˌɡreɪnd 1(of timber) having a grain that runs across the regular grain. Example sentencesExamples - The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
- The drawer openings were defined by cross-grained half-round moldings glued directly to the case.
- Complementing the bookmatched crotch mahogany veneers of the panels and drawer faces are the cross-grained rosewood facings of the finial plinth, doorframes, and drawer banding.
2Stubbornly contrary or bad-tempered. Bruce was a cross-grained and boastful individual Example sentencesExamples - How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil?
- One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon.
- The reaction in the Scottish Parliament this week said a lot about our MSPs and their cross-grained views.
Synonyms awkward, difficult, uncooperative, perverse, contrary, unhelpful, obstructive, disobliging, unaccommodating, unreasonable, troublesome, tiresome, annoying, vexatious, disobedient, recalcitrant, refractory, wilful, headstrong, self-willed, capricious, wayward stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, mulish, pig-headed, bull-headed, intractable Scottish thrawn informal cussed British informal bloody-minded, bolshie, stroppy North American informal balky archaic froward, contumacious rare renitent, pervicacious, contrarious
Definition of cross-grained in US English: cross-grainedadjectiveˈkrôsˌɡrāndˈkrɔsˌɡreɪnd 1(of timber) having a grain that runs across the regular grain. Example sentencesExamples - Complementing the bookmatched crotch mahogany veneers of the panels and drawer faces are the cross-grained rosewood facings of the finial plinth, doorframes, and drawer banding.
- The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
- The drawer openings were defined by cross-grained half-round moldings glued directly to the case.
- 1.1 Stubbornly contrary or bad-tempered.
Bruce was a cross-grained and boastful individual Example sentencesExamples - One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon.
- How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil?
- The reaction in the Scottish Parliament this week said a lot about our MSPs and their cross-grained views.
Synonyms awkward, difficult, uncooperative, perverse, contrary, unhelpful, obstructive, disobliging, unaccommodating, unreasonable, troublesome, tiresome, annoying, vexatious, disobedient, recalcitrant, refractory, wilful, headstrong, self-willed, capricious, wayward
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