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GOOGLE’S DELAYED COOKIE CULL IS AN INEVITABLE INTERMISSION TO ITS FRACTIOUS PURSUIT OF PRIVACY PROTECTIONSSEB JOSEPHJUNE 25, 2021DIGIDAYIt’s been a fractious and scary year, but these pandemic babies will still laugh deliriously at the smallest of forgotten joys, like squeezing mashed potatoes through their fingers or grabbing the dog’s nose.
FINDING NEW OPTIMISM IN THOSE PANDEMIC BABIESSUSANNA SCHROBSDORFFMAY 30, 2021TIMEOn the other hand, there’s no way to know the Taliban’s true intentions or whether the often fractious group has a united view.
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY REALITY OF AFGHANISTANTRACY MORANAPRIL 28, 2021OZYIn her stories, everyday problems — the challenges of managing an unwieldy paper route, dealing with a fractious sibling or coping with an absent parent — became tales of triumph.
BEVERLY CLEARY, BELOVED AUTHOR WHO CHRONICLED SCHOOLYARD SCRAPES AND FEISTY KIDS, DIES AT 104HARRISON SMITH, BECKY KRYSTALMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTCompanies that collectively pour millions of dollars each year into campaigns through employee-funded PACs are registering their worry and anger about last week’s chaos with a reexamination of their role in powering the nation’s fractious politics.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE SYSTEM ROCKED AS FIRMS PAUSE OR HALT CONTRIBUTIONS AFTER ELECTION RESULTS CHALLENGEDTODD FRANKEL, JEFF STEIN, TONY ROMMJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTDanny Meyer wants to bring everyone to the table after a fractious election.
DOORDASH BACKS DOWN FROM HIGHER FEES ON D.C. RESTAURANTS AFTER CITY ATTORNEY GENERAL STEPS INTIM CARMANDECEMBER 10, 2020WASHINGTON POST"I felt tired because I met no one I cared for," she answered, in rather fractious tones.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODHe could not think of one, for being alone made him feel fractious, yet he could not bear to meet any one.
THE WORKS OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT, VOLUME VIII.GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe expect to be caught with chaff, like fractious colts coquetting with the halter and secretly not unwilling to be caught.
UNVEILING A PARALLELALICE ILGENFRITZ JONES AND ELLA MARCHANTHe had been regarding with interest a shackled-kneed varlet holding a halberd in his arms as if it had been a fractious bairn.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETTWORDS RELATED TO FRACTIOUS
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
- contrary
- fractious
- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
- locked
- locked in
- mulish
- obdurate
- obstinate
- pat
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pig-headed
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resolute
- self-willed
- stubborn
- tenacious
- tough
- tough nut
- unbending
- uncompromising
- uncooperative
- undisciplined
- ungovernable
- unmanageable
- unpliable
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- willful
- awkward
- bull-headed
- cantankerous
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- hang tough
- hard-line
- headstrong
- immovable
- incompliant
- incurable
- indocile
- indomitable
- insoluble
- intransigent
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- locked in
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- unbending
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- annoying
- badly behaved
- contrary
- disobedient
- disorderly
- evil
- exasperating
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- froward
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- impish
- indecorous
- insubordinate
- intractable
- mischievous
- obstreperous
- perverse
- playful
- rascally
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- recalcitrant
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- rough
- rowdy
- sinful
- teasing
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- ungovernable
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- unruly
- wanton
- wayward
- wicked
- willful
- worthless
- wrong
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
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- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
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- cussed
- fault-finding
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- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- growling
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
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- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
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- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
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- touchy
- ugly
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- waspy
- whining
- abnormal
- bad-tempered
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- capricious
- contradictory
- contrary
- contumacious
- corrupt
- crabby
- cross
- degenerate
- delinquent
- depraved
- deviant
- disobedient
- dogged
- erring
- fractious
- hard-nosed
- headstrong
- intractable
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- obdurate
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- rotten
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- unhealthy
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- villainous
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- wicked
- willful
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- bellicose
- belligerent
- brawling
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- churlish
- combative
- contentious
- crabby
- cross
- disputatious
- dissentious
- excitable
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- gladiatorial
- hasty
- have chip on shoulder
- hotheaded
- huffy
- impassioned
- irascible
- irritable
- litigious
- ornery
- passionate
- peevish
- pettish
- petulant
- pugnacious
- querulous
- ructious
- snappy
- tempestuous
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- truculent
- turbulent
- unruly
- violent
- war
- alienated
- anarchistic
- attacking
- bellicose
- contumacious
- defiant
- difficult
- disaffected
- disloyal
- disobedient
- disorderly
- dissident
- factious
- fractious
- iconoclastic
- incorrigible
- individualistic
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- intractable
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- obstinate
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- radical
- rebel
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- resistant
- restless
- revolutionary
- rioting
- riotous
- sabotaging
- seditious
- threatening
- treasonable
- turbulent
- ungovernable
- unruly
- warring
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