Term Gallery logo

Significados de quarrelsome en inglés

Tending to argument or strife.

Quarrelsome.

Términos relacionados
Sinónimos
Examples for "contentious"
Examples for "contentious"
1
It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
Radio NZ
2
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
4
The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
BBC
5
However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly-contentious term in his stinging retort.
The South African
1
He became belligerent when security guards asked him to leave, police said.
Reuters
2
There was no basis for a belligerent response, State Department spokesman P.J.
Reuters
3
When Harris spoke, his words were more measured but just as belligerent.
Serena
4
The several notes between the United States and the belligerent Governments follow.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
5
Yet surely this staunch, belligerent effort should be applauded rather than cursed.
The Guardian
1
Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
Radio NZ
2
At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
The Guardian
3
His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Reuters
4
That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
Jarka Ruus
5
His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
Wired
Uso de quarrelsome en inglés
1
The thin, quarrelsome voice of Silas Blackburn echoed in the mouldy court.
The Abandoned Room
2
He walks not in religion in a quarrelsome spirit.-Questionsof King Milinda.
The Essence of Buddhism
3
This was the last of the quarrelsome cabinet sessions recorded by Jefferson.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
4
These groups had always been awkward and quarrelsome and difficult to organize.
The End of Man?
5
That could make them quarrelsome about everything, Zelandoni Who Was First said.
The Shelters of Stone
6
He very seldom touched alcohol, and the slightest indulgence made him quarrelsome.
Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
7
Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation.
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
8
Poor people who have their goods in common must necessarily become quarrelsome.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 / Popular Tales
9
He is fierce, quarrelsome, and sullen, living alone in the deepest forests.
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader
10
We were once the quarrelsome, but now we are the polite, lovers.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
11
He is, however, very erratic and irritable in disposition and often quarrelsome.
Analyzing Character / The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in...
12
No man could ever say that I was quarrelsome in my cups.
The Frozen Pirate
13
Being almost without exception Americans, they are not quarrelsome in their cups.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
14
Then they would stand dejectedly at the garden wall, bored and quarrelsome.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02
15
He is fond of strong liquor and when intoxicated is very quarrelsome.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
16
Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman
Sobre este término
Más colocaciones
Quarrelsome a través del tiempo
Quarrelsome por variante geográfica
Reino Unido
Común
Estados Unidos de América
Menos común