fractious
Example Sentences
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If it sounds polarised, ill-tempered and fractious, that is because it is.
From BBC
SEOUL—After a six-year hiatus, the first passenger trains connecting the capitals of China and North Korea resumed, a sign of warming ties between two countries that have a history of fractious relations.
It has had a fractious relationship with former prime minister Oli in the past.
From BBC
A fractious council meeting in December was disrupted by motorists honking their car horns outside, while a man was ejected for barracking councillors with shouts of "shame" after it got under way.
From BBC
Allegra Goodman’s family saga coaxes, in Sam Sacks’s words, “excellent, bone-dry humor” out of the skirmishes and long-running battles among members of a loving, fractious clan.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
