Thesaurus / quarrelsome
other words for quarrelsome
MOST RELEVANT
- belligerent
- cantankerous
- combative
- contentious
- fractious
- litigious
- petulant
- tempestuous
- turbulent
- unruly
- argumentative
- bad-tempered
- bellicose
- cat-and-dog
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cross
- disputatious
- dissentious
- excitable
- fiery
- gladiatorial
- hasty
- have chip on shoulder
- hotheaded
- huffy
- impassioned
- irascible
- irritable
- ornery
- passionate
- peevish
- pettish
- pugnacious
- querulous
- ructious
- snappy
- thin-skinned
- touchy
- truculent
- violent
- war
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Humans are a quarrelsome lot with a special talent for waging war.
HUMANS HAVE GOTTEN NICER AND BETTER AT MAKING WAR - ISSUE 94: EVOLVINGSTEVE PAULSONJANUARY 6, 2021NAUTILUS
Fitzwilliam was a man of hasty temper, Fitton was said to be vain-glorious and was certainly quarrelsome and litigious.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS, VOL. II (OF 3)RICHARD BAGWELL
He was needed to set right his barony, for he himself grew weak and his vassals quarrelsome.
GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS
The notion of a tyrant God can create but abject, angry, quarrelsome, intolerant slaves.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
They pleaded their conscience, and pretended to have received from Heaven the right to be quarrelsome, turbulent, and rebellious.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER
Preston Congregationalism is a very good, a very respectable, and a very quarrelsome creature.
OUR CHURCHES AND CHAPELSATTICUS
His wife was quarrelsome, their income small, and their family rapidly increasing.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
The Feloups are morose, quarrelsome, and vindictive, but faithful and courageous.
CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERSJULES VERNE
They are Drunkards, quarrelsome, and so vindictive,324 that they think any sort of Revenge sweet.
THE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES-LEWIS, BARON DE POLLNITZ, VOLUME IIKARL LUDWIG VON PLLNITZ
They were greedy and quarrelsome, and hence were engaged in perpetual strife,--in the assault on castles and devastation of lands.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORD
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