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How to use cross-grained in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cross-grained? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
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.
The drawer openings were defined by cross-grained half-round moldings glued directly to the case.
How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil?
The seventy-nine-year-old hippie from Parkman, Maine, has a cross-grained disposition, a Civil War beard, and manifestly unmoisturized skin.
The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
Josiah Crawley, the cross-grained curate of Hogglestock, is suspected of having stolen a cheque.
Lennox, a cross-grained, disillusioned 40-year-old, watches a Saturday afternoon game between Notts County and Bristol City.
He is by nature cross-grained and rebellious, and the longer he has lived upon this earth the more devoted to these traits he has grown.
All that gnarled, virile, rugged language was a sign of the cross-grained idiosyncrasy of the freeborn Englishman, as opposed to the insidious smoothness of the effeminate French.
Examples from Classical Literature
See what the Grammonts would have been now, but for this cross-grained fellow!
He is peevish and cross-grained, poor man, since he came here.
Confusion, vexation and every cross-grained word in the language!
This fellow was not only cross-grained, but absolutely malignant.
He handed Willie a piece of cross-grained wood and a blunt knife.
I am a cross-grained body, and contradiction makes me worse.
He was a cross-grained man, oppressed by a large family, and he resented the superciliousness which he fancied he saw in Philip.
The man referred to was a long, lank, lantern-jawed fellow with a cross-grained expression of countenance.
Youd think him and that walleyed, cross-grained son-of-a-gun had been kind and lovin mates these many years.
I can't believe any one was ever born with such a cross-grained temper.
These two cross-grained epithets of malignant and resolutioner cost poor Sir Allan one half of the family estate.
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