ADJECTIVE
- difficult to deal with
- of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
How To Use cross-grained In A Sentence
- The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
- The reaction in the Scottish Parliament this week said a lot about our MSPs and their cross-grained views.
- The lower portions of the bookcase doors have panels of crotch mahogany set within cross-grained and mitred satinwood surrounds.
- 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.
- A cross-grained trapper with murty odd oogs, awflorated ares, inquiline nase and a twithcherous mouph? Finnegans Wake
- How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil?
- On the crest of a cross-grained stickleback, that is caught with a crooked pin; Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
- One can see that his colleagues must have regarded him as a cross-grained old curmudgeon.
