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

There is no action in this second and last act save that sprung of this stranger's entrance and quarrelsomeness, and his interruptions of an old, old man's story of what he knows of Peg's life.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

In these words the historian himself furnishes cause for distrusting the justice of ascribing to her a crabbed temper and habitual quarrelsomeness.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

No bawling, no quarrelsomeness, no staggering tipplers; a spirit of universal good cheer broods over the assembly.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman