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

Here we have the effect of one of these curiously interesting biological checks upon man's foolish quarrelsomeness which might result in a too great disproportion of the sexes.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

The next year it was his antlers that got him into trouble—his antlers and his quarrelsomeness.

From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by Hulbert, William Davenport

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