fractious
Example Sentences
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Bruce Meyer, the current executive director of the players association, puts the union’s fractious history with the owners at the center of his communications with players.
From Los Angeles Times
As a Shiite-majority nation, Iran has long held fractious and even hostile relationships with Sunni jihadist actors.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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