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Meanings of quarrelsome in anglès

Tending to argument or strife.

Quarrelsome.

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Examples for "contentious"
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It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
Radio NZ
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However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly contentious exercise.
The Irish Times
3
Yet in this year's contentious Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
Reuters
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The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
BBC
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However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly-contentious term in his stinging retort.
The South African
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He became belligerent when security guards asked him to leave, police said.
Reuters
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There was no basis for a belligerent response, State Department spokesman P.J.
Reuters
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When Harris spoke, his words were more measured but just as belligerent.
Serena
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The several notes between the United States and the belligerent Governments follow.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
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Yet surely this staunch, belligerent effort should be applauded rather than cursed.
The Guardian
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Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
Radio NZ
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At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
The Guardian
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His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Reuters
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That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
Jarka Ruus
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His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
Wired
Usage of quarrelsome in anglès
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The thin, quarrelsome voice of Silas Blackburn echoed in the mouldy court.
The Abandoned Room
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He walks not in religion in a quarrelsome spirit.-Questionsof King Milinda.
The Essence of Buddhism
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This was the last of the quarrelsome cabinet sessions recorded by Jefferson.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
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These groups had always been awkward and quarrelsome and difficult to organize.
The End of Man?
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That could make them quarrelsome about everything, Zelandoni Who Was First said.
The Shelters of Stone
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He very seldom touched alcohol, and the slightest indulgence made him quarrelsome.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
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Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
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Poor people who have their goods in common must necessarily become quarrelsome.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
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He is fierce, quarrelsome, and sullen, living alone in the deepest forests.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
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We were once the quarrelsome, but now we are the polite, lovers.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
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He is, however, very erratic and irritable in disposition and often quarrelsome.
Analyzing Character / The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in...
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No man could ever say that I was quarrelsome in my cups.
The Frozen Pirate
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Being almost without exception Americans, they are not quarrelsome in their cups.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
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Then they would stand dejectedly at the garden wall, bored and quarrelsome.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
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He is fond of strong liquor and when intoxicated is very quarrelsome.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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