Easily irritated or annoyed.
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.
1 Such talk usually generates fractious debate between privacy hawks and security hounds.
2 It's a kind of utopian oasis in the fractious post-civil war days.
3 The public mood is now more fractious and hostile to established politics.
4 The fractious atmosphere of British society is always lurking in the background.
5 The incident adds another complication to fractious ties between the two countries.
6 Ethiopia is withdrawing troops because of its frustrations with Somalia's fractious politics.
7 He muttered an oath as he fought to calm the fractious animal.
8 In the process, they opened a fascinating window into their fractious world.
9 The Squire had been like a fractious child over the compulsory rations.
10 It already seems like that fractious atmosphere will be present once more.
11 Males with blue throats are smaller, less fractious , and hold smaller territories.
12 The baby, suffering from unavoidable neglect, developed the fractious temper of semi-illness.
13 His intellect, his spirituality and prayerfulness have held a fractious communion together.
14 They are not thrust into the beyond by their own fractious bodies.
15 Everyone wants a baby, not a cranky toddler or a fractious six-year-old.
16 They think it makes them fractious , and not so easy to manage.
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