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
Pugnac′ity, readiness or inclination to fight: fondness for fighting: quarrelsomeness.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
It is obvious, indeed, that no change of system or machinery can avert those causes of social malaise which consist in the egotism, greed, or quarrelsomeness of human nature.
From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
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 William Davenport Hulbert
