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Adjective: cross-grained  krós greynd
  1. Difficult to deal with
    - contrarious
     
  2. Of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
    - curly-grained, wavy-grained

See also: obstinate, stubborn, uneven, unregenerate

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