quarrelsome
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- quarrelsomely adverb
- quarrelsomeness noun
- unquarrelsome adjective
Etymology
Origin of quarrelsome
Example Sentences
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Much of the reason the Ripa-Consuelos team has been successful on TV is that they are enthusiastic, quarrelsome in an amusing way, but also intense.
According to Penguin Random House, the book depicts the story of "two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, who experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity".
From BBC
But in grieving his lost youth, he became quarrelsome and sometimes belligerent.
From Los Angeles Times
Paranoid, controlling, quarrelsome and rigid, LadyBird turns out to have a traumatic secret of her own.
From Los Angeles Times
Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to lay out how he and his quarrelsome governing coalition aim to fix things in a speech to parliament Tuesday.
From Seattle Times
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