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

In these words the historian himself furnishes cause for distrusting the justice of ascribing to her a crabbed temper and habitual quarrelsomeness.

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

The next year it was his antlers that got him into trouble—his antlers and his quarrelsomeness.

From Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals by Hulbert, William Davenport