factious

Example Sentences

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He believed that “ambition must be made to counter ambition,” and he denounced “the oppression of factious majorities.”

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024

“We call on all Nigerien democratic patriots to stand up as one to say no to this factious action that tends to set us back decades and block the progress of our country,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2023

“In a country that’s highly factious, it the factor that unites everyone,” Mark Jones, who studies Latin American politics at Rice University in Houston, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2022

Control of the factious LDP would allow Kishida three years to execute his programme before another election.

From Reuters • Jul. 11, 2022

It is in this last sense that the term is used in the New Testament, usually with an implicit censure of the factious spirit to which such divisions are due.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various