quarrelsomeness
Example Sentences
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In return, "the young woman of that day will refuse him because he has inherited a gene from his father which will predispose their children to quarrelsomeness".
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2014
Giap's quarrelsomeness has shown up in the long course of the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
As between adults, we find a general quarrelsomeness which makes political reform as impossible to most Englishmen as to hogs.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
Dashing pieces, rag-time pieces, marches, two-steps, and familiar tunes with variations, instead of bringing about a spirit of gentleness and harmony, actually tend to produce self-assertiveness and quarrelsomeness.
From Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
Fink, for his part, took little heed of the baron, merely contracting his brows when he observed his quarrelsomeness toward Anton, and never saying more than "he can not help it."
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
