crossgrained
21restive — I adjective averse, balking, balky, cantankerous, contumacious, crossgrained, crotchety, deaf to reason, demurring, difficult, discontented, disinclined, disobedient, exceptious, excitable, excited, fidgety, fractious, fretful, grumpy, headstrong …
22Sullenness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Sullenness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 sullenness sullenness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 morosity morosity spleen Sgm: N 1 churlishness churlishness &c.(discourtesy) 895 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility &c. 901 …
23stiff-necked — a. Stubborn, obstinate, obdurate, dogged, mulish, headstrong, contumacious, crossgrained, unruly, intractable …
24athwart — adv 1. across, crosswise, crossways, cross, crisscross, from side to side, transversely. 2. awry, askant, askew, obliquely, sidelong, sideways; perversely, wrongly, contrawise, crossgrained, across the grain, against the tide or wind; at cross… …
25refractory — adj recalcitrant, contumacious, froward, balky, uncooperative, crossgrained, wrong headed, perverse, contrary, willful, self willed, stiff necked, U.S. Inf. notionate, Inf. cussed, Archaic. untoward; obstinate, stubborn, stubborn as a mule,… …
26self-willed — adj willful, contrary, Archaic. contrari ous, contumacious, crossgrained, perverse, wrong headed, balky, uncooperative; froward, refractory, recalcitrant, querulous, seditious, Scot. thrawn, U.S. Inf. notionate, Inf. cussed, Archaic. untoward;… …
27DEISTS — DEISTS, adherents of a rationalist movement that arose in the 17th and 18th centuries as an attempt to explain the Bible and create a theology based on the rules of logic and the sciences. Deism arose in the middle of the 17th century out of the… …
