fractious
- refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man.
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testy, unruly, recalcitrant, irritable, unmanageable, restive, awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indomitable, intractable, mean, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulantExamples from the Web for fractious
Contemporary Examples of fractious
Relationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious.
Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check.
The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative.
He was well aware of the fractious history between Congress and the White House on Gitmo and was determined to start anew.
Congress Cooperates, Obama Pushes Hard, and Closing Gitmo Has a ChanceDaniel Klaidman
December 12, 2013
We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood.
Historical Examples of fractious
Correy mooned around the Arpan sub-base like a fractious child.
The Terror from the DepthsSewell Peaslee Wright
His voice had a fractious tone, as if he combated an unseen tyrant.
Country NeighborsAlice Brown
I'll break you to pieces, James H., if you are fractious; and I've got the weapons to do it with.
A PessimistRobert Timsol
You are old enough to know better, and yet you behave like a fractious child.
MenhardocGeorge Manville Fenn
There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.
MoodsLouisa May Alcott
fractious
- irritable
- unruly