cross-grained

Here, everybody has a “cross-grained stubbornness and iconoclast’s temper.”

He wrote, “You possess all the attributes of a demagogue: a screeching, horrible voice; a perverse, cross-grained nature; and the language of the market-place.”

The geologic mystery of the canyon is how the south-trending Colorado River made a sudden turn westward to carve its way, cross-grained, through four plateaus.

In the end, you have little cross-grained pallets, which you sandwich together with jam.

Perverse, obstinate, contrary, cross-grained, intractable, not amenable, in a dour sullen mood.