quarrelsome
Example Sentences
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“By choice, she did not emphasize her feminine qualities,” he wrote, adding that she was secretive and quarrelsome.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
If women resist men, however, they are seen as quarrelsome and disobedient, and no longer trustworthy.
From Salon
The opposition Socialist Party said the country had been "liberated from a political hostage situation", with leader Jimmy Dijk calling the governing coalition "four right-wing quarrelsome parties that achieve nothing".
From BBC
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
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