How To Use Crosspatch In A Sentence

Whenever I express my penchant for reality television in the circle of snide, knowing, not-as-smart-as-they-think-they-are crosspatches that I'm cursed to call friends, I often do so defensively.
The crosspatch is therefore disabled physically, socially and psychologically.
The couple with that crosspatch cat, Bathsheba, had bars on all the ground-floor and basement windows, and no fewer than three separate locks on their front door. Portobello
Don't be a fashion crosspatch, denouncing girls in shorts so short they look more like underwear than items of outdoor clothing. How to get stylish
York is bulging at the walls with Scrooges, Grinches, crotchety crosspatches and other assorted bah humbuggers.

Our pick for walls is the Eames crosspatch combo, which comes in a pack of 20 squares. $52 at www. whatisblik.com. Trend Report Study in style
He's a youthful crosspatch, a reedy-voiced adolescent with a gripe. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
Mr Curry was no one person in particular but an amalgam of all the mean, intolerant and bigoted crosspatches I had come across over the years.
I am conscious of having been something of a crosspatch this week, so allow me to finish by applauding BBC4 for its North of England stuff. Trouble at the ranch as Adrian Chiles gets the jitters
Nancys hands were clenched into fists by her side, her mouth drawn tight as a crosspatch. The House at Riverton
A propos ‘crosspatch’ a ‘mardy’ child is sullen and whining.