quarrelsome
adjective
inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.
quarrelsomely
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a word derived from
quarrelsome.
Example Sentences
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The saviors and guardians of the Lord's Sepulchre have nothing better to do than gamble extravagantly, dawdle quarrelsomely and bicker about Doctrine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Premier Ivanoe Bonomi's six-party government was bumblingly, quarrelsomely impotent, unable even to impose order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Albert Charlton, like many other very conscientious men at his time of life, was quarrelsomely honest.
From The Mystery of Metropolisville by Edward Eggleston
"This is lively, is not it?" he says, in an aggressively loud voice, as if he were quarrelsomely anxious to be overheard.
From Nancy by Rhoda Broughton
I discovered that Piazza San Marco is every morning swept by troops of ragged facchini, who gossip noisily and quarrelsomely together over their work.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
