Meanings of more fractious in English

The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.

Pierre, more and more fractious every moment, retorted with a sneer:

Without that support in future, the talks are only likely to grow more fractious.

Off the pitch, however, things are a little more fractious.

Cameron is still presiding over a coalition and this one might be considerably more fractious.

The discourse around how women in positions of power and influence dress has never been more fractious.

Photograph: Graeme Robertson Either way the business of the coalition will become harder to transact as relations become more fractious.

She is now eight months old and all has changed -she is much more fractious and constantly wakes at night.

The Liverpool Riverside CLP has so far avoided suspension, even though it has a reputation for being even more fractious than Wallasey.

She could relax Arnhand's claims to some of the more fractious border counties till she feels strong enough to take them back.

Naturally the dissenters grew all the more fractious for this currying, and held another meeting, in which the reaction kicked up higher than ever.

There's no shortage of countries with far more fractious political and economic ties with Washington that won't need much encouragement to reduce their dollar exposure.

The whirlwind unleashed by Brexit within Britain's increasingly dysfunctional family of nations has stirred things up in the even more fractious Spanish household of nationalities.

The discipline that the Lions maintained during the more fractious moments of Saturday's encounter could yet transpire to be a crucial aspect of this series.