crossways
Example Sentences
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Villaraigosa, a former labor leader who’s gotten crossways with teacher unions among other party mainstays, professed not to care.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
Mr. Pieters said he first got crossways with the agency after a lawyer complained about his Twitter posts to his supervisors.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
“Now the only time we get crossways with beaver is if they start building dams in our irrigation ditches,” Mr. Smith said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2022
In other words, it’s certainly possible, although the DOJ spokesman denies it, that yet again Barr has gotten crossways with his own department over religious liberty.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2020
The one that does people’s hairdos is old Mama Lo, who’s only just got the two teeth, one upstairs and one down, so she chews crossways.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
