quarrelsome
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The move is risky, and it will be quarrelsome — especially for those who still see Zendaya as an idyllic Disney star, despite her respectable penchant for complicated characters.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2026
Don't get me wrong, the tone of these discussions has always been quarrelsome and combative; more Lemme than Liszt.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2025
Paranoid, controlling, quarrelsome and rigid, LadyBird turns out to have a traumatic secret of her own.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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