thwarty

comparative thwartier · comparative more thwarty · superlative thwartiest · superlative most thwarty

1. Causing or indicating opposition; adverse; pushy; cross

   Their thwarty eyes, their hands on mouths, the smell revealed as much.

   2000, Jim Crace, Being Dead

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   And in this aim, there is such a thwarty strife, / That one for all, or all for one we gauge ; [...]

   1950, Syed Ghulam Imam, Anis & Shakespeare

   He had not interfered in the conversation of the two men and he even did not mean to inquire later what they'd done at the ministry, about Tomoioaga ("I am sure he is that thwarty, very pushing fellow I met at Milan, he seemed surprised they [...] ")

   1978, Romanian Review, volume 32, numbers 1-8