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

It was not unfitting that so quarrelsome a man as Pope should have been the occasion of so much quarrelsomeness in others. 

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine

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 Freytag, Gustav

This was the signal for Bridget's quarrelsomeness again.

From The Rectory Children by Crane, Walter