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Fractious synonyms

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unruly
Wild; uncontrolled
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  1. Wild; uncontrolled
  2. Difficult to keep in place or in order:
  3. Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule:
peevish
Contrary; fractious.
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  1. Contrary; fractious.
  2. Showing ill humor or impatience, as a glance or remark
  3. Hard to please; irritable; fretful; cross
perverse
Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
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  1. Contrary to what is right or good; wicked or depraved:
  2. Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
  3. Having an effect opposite to what is intended or expected:
touchy
Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
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  1. Easily offended; oversensitive; irritable
  2. Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate:
  3. Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
cross
Contrary or counter; opposing.
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  1. Contrary or counter; opposing.
  2. Involving reciprocal actions, etc.
  3. Lying or passing crosswise; intersecting:
refractory
Having a high melting point. Ceramics that are made from clay and minerals are often refractory, as are metal oxides and carbides. Refractory materials are often used as liners in furnaces.
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  1. Having a high melting point. Ceramics that are made from clay and minerals are often refractory, as are metal oxides and carbides. Refractory materials are often used as liners in furnaces.
  2. Resistant to treatment:
  3. Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat:
troublesome
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
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  1. Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.
  2. Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
disorderly
Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
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  1. Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
  2. (Law) Offensive to good morals and public decency.
  3. Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
indocile
Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.
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  1. Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.
  2. Not docile; difficult to manage or discipline
intractable
Hard to work, manipulate, cure, treat, etc.
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  1. Hard to work, manipulate, cure, treat, etc.
  2. Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
  3. Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate.
lawless
Not governed by law:
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  1. Not governed by law:
  2. Without law; not regulated by the authority of law
  3. Contrary to the law; unlawful:
obstinate
Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
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  1. Stubbornly adhering to an attitude, opinion, or course of action; obdurate.
  2. Not easily subdued, ended, etc.
  3. Difficult to manage, control, or treat:
obstreperous
Noisily unruly or defiant:
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  1. Noisily unruly or defiant:
  2. Noisy, boisterous, or unruly, esp. in resisting or opposing
recalcitrant
Difficult to manage or deal with:
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  1. Difficult to manage or deal with:
  2. Refusing to obey authority, custom, regulation, etc.; stubbornly defiant
  3. Resistant to chemical decomposition; decomposing extremely slowly.
refractory
Resistant to treatment:
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  1. Resistant to treatment:
  2. Difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat:
  3. Having a high melting point. Ceramics that are made from clay and minerals are often refractory, as are metal oxides and carbides. Refractory materials are often used as liners in furnaces.
uncontrollable
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
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  1. Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
  2. Impossible to control or govern:
ungovernable
Not governable
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  1. Not governable
  2. Incapable of being governed, restrained, or controlled.
  3. That cannot be governed or controlled; unruly, wild, etc.
unmanageable
Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed; not controllable.
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  1. Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed; not controllable.
  2. Difficult or impossible to manage or control:
unruly
Difficult to keep in place or in order:
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  1. Difficult to keep in place or in order:
  2. Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule:
  3. Wild; uncontrolled
untoward
Not favorable or fortunate; adverse, inauspicious, etc.
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  1. Not favorable or fortunate; adverse, inauspicious, etc.
  2. Inappropriate, improper, unseemly, etc.
  3. Unruly, troublesome.
wild
Risky; imprudent:
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  1. Risky; imprudent:
  2. Occurring, growing, or living in a natural state; not domesticated, cultivated, or tamed:
  3. Characterized by a lack of moral restraint; dissolute or licentious:
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  • It was a harsh period for Greenlee as her fractious and oftentimes abrasive personality became even more difficult.

  • Differences Feel that things are getting a bit fractious?

  • fractious child.

  • fractious in the second half of the meeting, and I for one would be more content with some real food.

  • fractious debate a decision was taken for a second march to Symonds office.

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