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ructious
adjective as in combative
adjective as in quarrelsome
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Gone is Edward Abbey’s ructious ire.
Most of the violence came from members of the Right Sector group, a ructious Ukrainian nationalist organization born of the pro-European protests that is heavily armed and has taken part in the fighting against the Russia-backed rebels in Ukraine’s east.
I gave the order to fire on the ructious rabble.
Perhaps the greatest expert on those teasing, furniture-tossing, ructious ghosts called poltergeists was the late British Jesuit, Father Herbert Thurston, who wrote two books and various pamphlets on the subject.
Just as Napoleon turned back from the English Channel to Ulm and Austerlitz because he feared treachery at his rear, Adolf Hitler was perhaps just consolidating the ructious minor countries of the southeast.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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