Cross-Grained is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 1822 anagrams from letters in cross-grained (-acdeginorrss).
First recorded in 1640-50
"In sooth, I am too cross-grained," said Griffith, relenting.
This fellow was not only cross-grained, but absolutely malignant.
He was not a growly-wowly, cross-grained man, like some fathers we know of—not he.
His mother was a curious, cross-grained old woman, not yet a Christian.
Confusion, vexation and every cross-grained word in the language!
He is peevish and cross-grained, poor man, since he came here.
He handed Willie a piece of cross-grained wood and a blunt knife.
I am a cross-grained body, and contradiction makes me worse.
See what the Grammonts would have been now, but for this cross-grained fellow!
I can't believe any one was ever born with such a cross-grained temper.
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