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
Much of their teaching is of course the common property of all moral teachers—the deprecation of anger, of quarrelsomeness, of self-indulgence, of grumbling, of impurity, is peculiar to no school.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
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
To a natural waywardness and quarrelsomeness had been added a heritage of bitter memories, and the outlook was not bright.
From The Reign of Andrew Jackson by Frederic Austin Ogg
