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fractious
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synonyms: irascible, refractory, importunate, disputatious, splenetic ???
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Definition:quarrelsome; argumentative
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he felt a flash of irritation. He was perhaps just fractious from work.
Jane Harper. The Dry, p.184 (2016)
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Tom was "fractious," as Roxy called it, and overbearing; Chambers was meek and docile.
Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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The old inclination, I suppose, to keep my art confined and safe, like a potentially fractious child restricted to her room.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.134 (2005)
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"Upon my honor, this little goodman is very fractious. It's really too droll. You shall speak or we will make you jump under our swords like a spaniel."
Charles Paul de Kock. The Barber of Paris
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I say, What happen to you, Harpo?
He say, Oh, me and that mule. She fractious, you know.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple, p.37 (1982)
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His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
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Lash under the belly with a knotted thong. Block tackle and a strangling pulley will bring your lion to heel, no matter how fractious, even Leo ferox there, the Libyan maneater.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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"Why'd you wake me up?" she asked. She was still too heavy with sleep to sound really fractious.
J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.124 (1955)
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he enjoyed the cosseting for approximately twenty-four hours and then became in turn restive, restless, testy, irritable, cranky, fractious, and extremely bad tempered.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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