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

There is here no opportunity for jealousy or theft; little for intemperance, the gaming table, licentiousness or quarrelsomeness.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

Crabbedness of temper and quarrelsomeness were not grounds on which any portion of the people would count her a saint.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

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)