Meanings of very fractious in English

She is very fractious, I believe, and apt to kick over the milk-pail.

His master he regarded as a " very fractious man, hard to please."

He was so much disgusted over being compelled to walk that he was very fractious.

He was a doctor and very fractious and exact.

Reports have reached us of a very fractious Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday night.

Lucy was at the table, and very fractious.

She is very fractious, I believe, and apt to kick over the milk pail.... April 16.

When midday came, Robby was very fractious.

His drinking continu'd, about which we sometimes quarrel'd; for, when a little intoxicated, he was very fractious.

We depend on them to hold politicians to account, to cover what's going to be a very fractious campaign.

But they are often very fractious, and it is a bother for a man who was meant for a student.

It is, in fact, a very fractious subject within women, with some feeling that change is taking too long, says Quinn.

That's precisely what president Obama has done in a nation with very fractious politics and hyper partisanship on display in Congress.

Mayfield is the latest business figure to step into what he said was a "very , very fractious" debate on Scottish independence.

Picture: Derek More9) Despite their onscreen chemistry, Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze at times had a very fractious relationship which made filming difficult.