cornersome

comparative more cornersome · superlative most cornersome

1. datedCharacterised or marked by (having) corners.

   It is cornersome, but goodly; intricate, but interesting, and worth the learning.

   1904, John Walter Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu Montagu (2nd Baron), The Best Ways Out of London

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   The road is cornersome, but much easier to find than one would imagine from the map.

   1902, Car: A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea and Air, volume 2, page 120

   For one man's virtues may be in such a crude and cornersome stage of development that they will offend more than the refined faults of another man.

   1903, Ellen Burns Sherman, Why Love Grows Cold, page 120

   Between them and home lay the 10 miles of road over Snaefell summit, 6 miles of steep up-grade with two wicked hairpin bends, and 4 miles of very fast descent, also somewhat cornersome.

   1911, Motorcycle Illustrated, volume 6, page 46