Cross-Grained
[adj] of timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel
[adj] difficult to deal with
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across, across the grain, against the grain, athwart, athwartships, bearish, bitchy, broken, bumpy, cankered, cantankerous, choppy, churlish, coarse, coarse-grained, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise, corrugated, crabbed, cranky, crisscross, cross, cross