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 Shaw, Bernard

But through it all she was gentle and friendly, and all her old quarrelsomeness was gone.

From Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp by Coolidge, Dane

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