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quarrelsomequar‧rel‧some /ˈkwɒrəlsəm $ ˈkwɔː-, ˈkwɑː-/ adjective especially British English   - Although colorful, active, and good feeders, they are apt to be a little quarrelsome.
- Conversely, to be angry, quarrelsome, or brave marks one off as not human.
- Even quarrelsome members of the leadership, like William Joyce, appear to have been attracted to the movement by such motives.
- He depicts his noisy, disordered, life-loving, quarrelsome, self-absorbed family with a historian's detachment.
- Leese had a pronounced anti-authoritarian streak in his behaviour and a quarrelsome personality.
- Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome, uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church.
- They are quarrelsome, politically unstable and poor; some are preoccupied with fighting.
- They became cranky and quarrelsome, and stopped most of their activities in order to conserve energy.
someone who likes arguing► argumentative/quarrelsome someone who is argumentative seems to like arguing and starting arguments. Quarrelsome is less common than argumentative and is used especially in written English: · When he drinks too much he becomes argumentative.· She had had enough of all her quarrelsome relatives. ► confrontational speaking to people in a very direct way that is likely to cause an angry argument -- use this when you think someone is behaving unreasonably: · Some are worried that Beier's confrontational style will upset his staff.· In an attempt to improve his image, Stevens has decided to be less confrontational. someone who is quarrelsome quarrels a lot with people SYN argumentative:  He became quarrelsome after drinking too much. |