quarrelsome
adjective
inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
quarrelsomeness
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a word derived from
quarrelsome.
Example Sentences
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In return, "the young woman of that day will refuse him because he has inherited a gene from his father which will predispose their children to quarrelsomeness".
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2014
Giap's quarrelsomeness has shown up in the long course of the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these words the historian himself furnishes cause for distrusting the justice of ascribing to her a crabbed temper and habitual quarrelsomeness.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
To a natural waywardness and quarrelsomeness had been added a heritage of bitter memories, and the outlook was not bright.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
As between adults, we find a general quarrelsomeness which makes political reform as impossible to most Englishmen as to hogs.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
