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cross-purpose

noun as in Mexican standoff

Weak matches

noun as in disagreement

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It seems someway unlike God to make each person a something all of cross-purpose.

I am not prone on my green couch, frayed, frazzled, bowed-down in spirit from a day of frightful stress and cross-purpose.

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I do not excuse Sunna, but I say that wherever there is a cross purpose, there has likely never been a straight one.

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If we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then?

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cross-purpose, such as: collision, cross purposes, dead heat, deadlock, even money, and showdown.

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