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

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

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

To him enters a seedy but burly Stranger, in a state of muzzy affability, with an under-suggestion of quarrelsomeness.

From Mr. Punch's Railway Book by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

In Love's eyes all anger, contempt, and quarrelsomeness are as bad as murder—indeed are incipient murder, stopped short of overt crime through fear.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt