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Another word for quarrelsome

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Adjective

  1. Given to arguing

    See also:

    conflict

  2. Having or showing an eagerness to fight

    See also:

    attack

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Another word for quarrelsome

Modifier

  1. Inclined to fight

    Antonyms:

  2. Bad-tempered

    See also:

    irritable

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • He was quarrelsome and unruly.

  • The new king at Paris was a young boy, whose councils were swayed by a knot of quarrelsome and selfish uncles; the vigour of the attack on England began to slacken.

  • In 983, shortly before his death, she was appointed his viceroy in Italy; and was successful, in concert with the empress Theophano, widow of Otto II., and Archbishop Willigis of Mainz, in defending the right of her infant grandson, Otto III., to the German crown against the pretensions of Henry the Quarrelsome, duke of Bavaria.

  • followed as duke, and earned the name of "Quarrelsome" by constant struggles with the kings of Hungary and Bohemia and with the emperor.

  • He was a quarrelsome man, and after a stormy episcopate, died on the 19th of December 1343.

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