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

This was the signal for Bridget's quarrelsomeness again.

From The Rectory Children by Crane, Walter

There is no action in this second and last act save that sprung of this stranger's entrance and quarrelsomeness, and his interruptions of an old, old man's story of what he knows of Peg's life.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius

Much of their teaching is of course the common property of all moral teachers—the deprecation of anger, of quarrelsomeness, of self-indulgence, of grumbling, of impurity, is peculiar to no school.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)