Thesaurus / quarrelsomeness
FEEDBACKsynonyms for quarrelsomeness
synonyms for quarrelsomeness
- aggression
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerence
- belligerency
- combativeness
- disagreeableness
- fight
- hostility
- pugnacity
- truculence
- truculency
- argumentativeness
- pugnaciousness
- disagreement
- discord
- disharmony
- dissension
- disunity
- division
- friction
- rebellion
- sedition
- tumult
- turbulence
- divisiveness
- infighting
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How to use quarrelsomeness in a sentence
As between adults, we find a general quarrelsomeness which makes political reform as impossible to most Englishmen as to hogs.
A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDRENGEORGE BERNARD SHAWIt was not unfitting that so quarrelsome a man as Pope should have been the occasion of so much quarrelsomeness in others.
OBITER DICTAAUGUSTINE BIRRELLIt begins with the allegory of the two Strifes, who stand for wholesome Emulation and Quarrelsomeness respectively.
HESIOD, THE HOMERIC HYMNS, AND HOMERICAHOMER AND HESIODSo too, the proverbial quarrelsomeness of tennis-playing women results from the combative habit of mind.
FEMINISM AND SEX-EXTINCTIONARABELLA KENEALYFor nothing stimulates the snarling quarrelsomeness of human beings more than the sight of food or the fear of imposition.
THE PACIFIC TRIANGLESYDNEY GREENBIEFights were almost unknown for full stomachs were not conducive to quarrelsomeness.
THE BLACK PHANTOMLEO EDWARD MILLERIt must be remembered that at this period private duelling and cavalier quarrelsomeness amounted to a perfect mania.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 10, SLICE 2VARIOUSCrabbedness of temper and quarrelsomeness were not grounds on which any portion of the people would count her a saint.
WITCHCRAFT OF NEW ENGLAND EXPLAINED BY MODERN SPIRITUALISMALLEN PUTNAMThe peace-loving psalmist describes himself as stunned by the noise and quarrelsomeness of those around him.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE PSALMS, VOLUME IIIALEXANDER MACLARENCombativeness—Courage, opposition, intrepidity, quarrelsomeness.
MRS. HALE'S RECEIPTS FOR THE MILLIONSARAH JOSEPHA HALEWORDS RELATED TO QUARRELSOMENESS
- bands
- blocs
- bunches
- cabals
- camps
- caucuses
- cells
- circles
- clans
- cliques
- clubs
- coalitions
- combinations
- combines
- combos
- concerns
- conclaves
- confederacies
- conspiracies
- contingents
- coteries
- crews
- crowds
- designs
- divisions
- ententes
- gangs
- guilds
- insiders
- intrigues
- juntas
- knots
- lobbies
- machines
- minorities
- mobs
- networks
- offshoots
- outfits
- parties
- partnerships
- pressure groups
- rings
- schisms
- sections
- sectors
- sects
- sets
- sides
- splinter groups
- teams
- units
- wings
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.