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Quarrelsome
Definition:
(a.) Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Example Sentences:
(1) She takes him to see a venerated copy in an art gallery, but their prickly, quarrelsome relationship takes a strange turn when he is mistaken by a cafe owner for Binoche's husband.
(2) "Late" like the autumnal, musical Eliot of Four Quartets; like the demanding, crepuscular Beethoven quartet the film's characters rehearse for their silver-anniversary performance (String Quartet No 14 in C sharp minor – menacingly referred to as "Op 131"); and "late" in the connected senses of former or dead, which this quarrelsome foursome soon might be if they fail to recover their harmony.
(3) An equally quarrelsome perfectionist, only with breasts and less body hair?
(4) Quarrelsome behaviour was studied in 48 patients with a litigious-paranoid personality first developing in old age.
(5) Watching Agua in Athens, I am surprised by the fact that, while it is full of recognisable Bausch motifs (dancers lining up for a swaggering, quarrelsome beauty parade, or engaged in a quest for affection) some of it proves impossible to follow because so much of the text is spoken in Greek.
(6) The author describes the results of clinico-psychopathological study of 68 patients with neurotic states (hysterical, anxiety-phobic) and a psychopath-like syndrome (affective-explosive, hystero-hypochondriac and litigious-quarrelsome) observed long after occupational craniocerebral traumas.
(7) Manipulation tactics covaried significantly across self-based and observer-based data sources with personality scales of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Ambitious-Lazy, Arrogant-Unassuming, Quarrelsome-Agreeable, and Calculating and with characteristics of subjects' social environments.
(8) A quarrelsome, drinking, childhood home background was often found, at least as regards the attempters, who themselves frequently suffered from emotional conflicts with close contacts, alcohol affliction, criminality, and instability at work.
(9) Symptoms like quarrelsomeness, disobedience, abusive language, stealing, truancy, pica, school refusal, enuresis, mental subnormality and poor scholastic performance were significantly more in the LSE group.
(10) This is not a little light volunteering in the library – this is heavy-duty hard grind, often quarrelsome, and the people who made it work really are local heroes, whose own lives were changed.
(11) I suggest, first, that twice every month the Composer of the Week should be a living person; and, second, that every day some dissenting and quarrelsome voices should be heard (for instance, dismissing Beethoven as boring or Benjamin Britten as shallow).
(12) The origin of stomatalgias in psychopathic personalities was accompanied by its decompensation, leading not infrequently to the development of the litigious and quarrelsome personality.
(13) The best leaders promote participation and involvement as their core strategy; promote appropriate staff autonomy and accountability for improvement; ensure staff "voices" are encouraged; encourage staff to be proactive and innovative; avoid command and control except in crisis; take action to address systems problems and unnecessary tasks that prevent staff from delivering high quality care; deal effectively and quickly with quarrelsome, rude and disruptive behaviour and poor performance, especially (but not exclusively) among senior staff; and, above all, they model compassion in dealing with patients and staff.
(14) In some old patients with a psychogenic quarrelsome paranoiac symptom complex the latter develops by the mechanism of psychic induction.
(15) He had always been quarrelsome: now he was soon at odds with those deputies who had been elected in his name.
(16) Young Independent Group members were the angries of the art world, the gang was described by one member as "small, cohesive, quarrelsome, abusive".