Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
1 The most factious of his opponents he turned out of their offices.
2 They were factious , and were not disposed to submit to legitimate authority.
3 Every one was factious - every one was a soldier-everyone was a leader.
4 The factious spirit and the oppression of the ruling caste did the rest.
5 The ministry was weak and divided, the nobility factious , and the people discontented.
6 The parliament during factious times was nothing but the organ of present power.
7 I now mounted the factious mare, whilst Antonio followed on my own horse.
8 To unite themselves with the factious , was to become factious themselves.
9 Among his eulogists, of course, is not the factious Captain Ratcliffe.
10 He, during a prolonged Parliamentary experience, had encountered much factious opposition.
11 You are a factious Fellow, I'll take a Course with you.
12 Command a mutinous army by means of seditious and factious officers?
13 He was afterwards known only as the factious demagogue and the professed gambler!
14 Atterbury became the most factious and pertinacious of all the opponents of the government.
15 The Republic has grown in strength, and factious opposition has decreased during his administration.
16 In republics, the people become factious and idle, when they become any way wealthy.
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