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

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

Modly explained that his predecessor, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, “lost his job because the Navy Department got crossways with the president” in the Gallagher case.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 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