cross-purpose
an opposing or contrary purpose.
Idioms about cross-purpose
at cross-purposes, in a way that involves or produces mutual misunderstanding or frustration, usually unintentionally.
Origin of cross-purpose
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How to use cross-purpose in a sentence
It seems someway unlike God to make each person a something all of cross-purpose.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneI am not prone on my green couch, frayed, frazzled, bowed-down in spirit from a day of frightful stress and cross-purpose.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLaneI do not excuse Sunna, but I say that wherever there is a cross purpose, there has likely never been a straight one.
An Orkney Maid | Amelia Edith Huddleston BarrIf we find every fact of life at cross-purpose with Scripture, what then?
The Call of the Town | John Alexander Hammerton
British Dictionary definitions for cross-purpose
a contrary aim or purpose
at cross-purposes conflicting; opposed; disagreeing
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