quarrelsome
Example Sentences
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The move is risky, and it will be quarrelsome — especially for those who still see Zendaya as an idyllic Disney star, despite her respectable penchant for complicated characters.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 24, 2025
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".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025
Paranoid, controlling, quarrelsome and rigid, LadyBird turns out to have a traumatic secret of her own.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2024
There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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