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Meanings of fractious in anglès

Easily irritated or annoyed.

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Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.

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Fractious.

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Usage of fractious in anglès
1
Such talk usually generates fractious debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
Wired
2
It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
The Guardian
3
The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.
The Guardian
4
The fractious atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
The Guardian
5
The incident adds another complication to fractious ties between the two countries.
Reuters
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Ethiopia is withdrawing troops because of its frustrations with Somalia's fractious politics.
Reuters
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He muttered an oath as he fought to calm the fractious animal.
The spurned viscountess
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In the process, they opened a fascinating window into their fractious world.
Wired
9
The Squire had been like a fractious child over the compulsory rations.
Elizabeth's Campaign
10
It already seems like that fractious atmosphere will be present once more.
The South African
11
Males with blue throats are smaller, less fractious, and hold smaller territories.
Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation
12
The baby, suffering from unavoidable neglect, developed the fractious temper of semi-illness.
The Promised Land
13
His intellect, his spirituality and prayerfulness have held a fractious communion together.
The Guardian
14
They are not thrust into the beyond by their own fractious bodies.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
15
Everyone wants a baby, not a cranky toddler or a fractious six-year-old.
Arcadia falls
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They think it makes them fractious, and not so easy to manage.
Daisy
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Fractious across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common