quarrelsome

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.

If women resist men, however, they are seen as quarrelsome and disobedient, and no longer trustworthy.

The opposition Socialist Party said the country had been "liberated from a political hostage situation", with leader Jimmy Dijk calling the governing coalition "four right-wing quarrelsome parties that achieve nothing".

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".

But in grieving his lost youth, he became quarrelsome and sometimes belligerent.