Fractious Definition

frăkshəs
adjective
Hard to manage; unruly; rebellious; refractory.
Webster's New World
Peevish; irritable; cross.
Webster's New World

Given to troublemaking.

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Origin of Fractious

  • fraction (“discord, (now obsolete)”) +‎ -ous

    From Wiktionary

  • From fraction discord (obsolete)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fractious Sentence Examples

  • For some unaccountable reason they had suddenly decided to become fractious.

  • Indeed, the game proved equally as fractious as Saturday's.

  • Differences Feel that things are getting a bit fractious?

  • We both got a little fractious during this escapade, however, and I decided we should call it a night.

  • From 212, free subjects empire-wide were able to be Roman citizens, and the provinces grew more fractious.

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SUSOUS

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