quarrelsomeness

Example Sentences

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In return, "the young woman of that day will refuse him because he has inherited a gene from his father which will predispose their children to quarrelsomeness".

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2014

Giap's quarrelsomeness has shown up in the long course of the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

On account of his reputation for quarrelsomeness men chose their words carefully when they spoke to him.

From A Man Four-Square by Raine, William MacLeod

I did go to Brabant, but I saw no anger or quarrelsomeness; yet I suppose he had his reasons.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

It was not unfitting that so quarrelsome a man as Pope should have been the occasion of so much quarrelsomeness in others. 

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine