The word 'crosscurrent' is a correct and usable word in written English
One can use 'crosscurrent' to describe a situation where conflicting forces or ideas intersect and create tension or disagreement. Example: The recent political debates were filled with crosscurrents as candidates from different parties clashed in their ideologies and beliefs.
It furnishes just enough medical science for us to feel flattered, and enough uncertainty in the crosscurrent of motives to keep us guessing.
On either side of it, tall white candles flickered in a crosscurrent of the cabin's many drafts, sending uncertain shadows over the table and lending a layer of depth to the setting.
We had come up the Mississippi's east side, and now he swung crosscurrent, heading for the cutbank of the west-convexing bend just above the structures of Old River.
The result has been a bewildering crosscurrent of forces as governors respond to events in Washington in different ways, weighing political, provincial and ideological considerations.
Whether she's exulting in love, bemoaning its pains or exacting some revenge, there's usually a lilt, a syncopated crosscurrent, in the songs on Lianne La Havas's debut album, "Is Your Love Big Enough?" (Nonesuch).
The new members — caught in a political crosscurrent between their Tea Party constituents and their speaker — emotionally described their relief at getting support from constituents back home.
I wasn't so sure; it was a roiling mass of gray pin-tucks, swooping in conflicting directions for a crosscurrent-undertow effect.
According to Alan Newman of the Crosscurrents website, the average ratio between the Dow and gold since 1975 has been just under 15.
Implanted on the land bridge between Africa and Asia, it was exposed to crosscurrents of foreign thought throughout its history.
On the Pacific side a causeway extends from Balboa to three small islands (Naos, Perico, and Flamenco) and diverts crosscurrents that carry soft material from the shallow harbour of Panama City into the canal channel.
Lying along the medieval Silk Road trade route, the Turkistani oases were open to musical crosscurrents.
