1. Contrary to one's instinct or what is expected or normal

Encyclopedia: Against the grain

• Dame Muriel Spark
• Dame Myra Hess
• Dame Nellie Melba
• Dame Rebecca West
• Dame Sybil Thorndike
• Dame's violet
• Damgalnunna
• daminozide
• Damkina
• dammar
• dammar pine
• dammar resin
• dammit
• damn
• damn it
• damnable
• damnably
• damnation
• damnatory
• damndest
• damned
• damnedest
• damnify
• damning
• Damocles