Meaning of thwartful | Babel Free

Definitions

Full of opposition or inclined to thwart; contrary; cross

rare

Examples

““Poor little shard of a Brogie; and Stu,” searched I in the thwartful modulation, [...]”

“And, doing third edits for Lindsay notwithstanding, The Paper was a thwartful place for a would-be writer like myself to work in.”

“In this joke the use of the container is secondary, functioning primarily to create a more thwartable (thwartful?) expectation.”

“Josh viewed Jerome Benedict as a thwartful man always finding the flaws in other people's research.”

“And Vereker feels thwartful. . . . It's due to his having a boil—and no cushion with him. . . .”

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