(a.) Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
(2) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
(3) The sale of Vodafone's 45% stake in its US joint venture to its partner Verizon Communications would end 13 years of an often fractious shared ownership.
(4) In a sign of how coalition relations will remain fractious until the election in May 2015, the deputy prime minister said: "You've got a Conservative party now who are driven, it seems to me, by two very clear ideological impulses.
(5) It takes a rare company to unite the rest of the fractious British media industry.
(6) Which is that when we – my dad driving, my mum alongside, a 16- or 17-year-old fractious me in the backseat, my younger sister and brother – headed down a remote country road, I can’t remember what language the road sign saying DO NOT ENTER was actually in.
(7) However, following later abortions at greater than 20 weeks, the rare but catastrophic occurrence of live births can lead to fractious controversy over neonatal management.
(8) The two latter kingdoms were reunited in the century that followed – but the presence of a third dynasty suggests that their fractious relationship and subsequent amalgamation may have been more complex than initially thought.
(9) Livingstone, the former London mayor, whose fractious relationship with the Standard reached a low point with his Nazi jibe at Jewish reporter Oliver Finegold , remains defiantly unapologetic about the incident and holds a healthy hatred of the title, now majority-owned by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
(10) We don’t want to expend too much energy in training because of the humidity but we stay here, we play, and then go back to Manchester for two more weeks of preparation before the first official game.” Mourinho and Guardiola brushed off the question of whether they would shake hands beforehand because of the fractious nature of their rivalry when formerly in charge of Real Madrid and Barcelona respectively.
(11) Still, while she may be blocked from the top job, the ruling, military-backed Union Solidarity and Development party is facing increasing fractiousness within its ranks.
(12) But read between the lines of this truncated character sketch and you also get a glimpse of what has been a sometimes fractious career.
(13) Multiple fractious arguments about the internet dominate headlines these days, but ultimately they are all battles in a single war.
(14) After the creed and some Benjamin Britten, and a blessing and a long round of applause, the man charged with holding together the fractious global Anglican communion as it struggles with the vexed issues of women bishops and same-sex marriage processed out of the cathedral and into the bitterly cold spring afternoon.
(15) The left's Monsieur Ordinary will now be called upon to demonstrate extraordinary leadership skills: first to reunite his party, then, in a more problematic and pressing task, to reunite the fractious French left, before launching his presidential campaign.
(16) This had been awkward, a fractious occasion which saw players from both sides dismissed before the interval, but it ended up feeling like a show of strength played out largely to a tempo Chelsea imposed.
(17) Other speakers nervously approached applause lines not knowing whether they would be booed or cheered by the fractious crowd.
(18) Recent collaboration between traditionally fractious teaching unions to oppose cuts to the school rebuilding programme gained more traction than the usual grumbles about pay because it spoke to parents as well as professionals.
(19) The entry into the race of the MP for Wallasey, Angela Eagle, puts Merseyside at the centre of what is shaping up to be one of the most fractious Labour contests since the days of Militant in the 1980s.
(20) Lygo, who had a fractious relationship with Duncan, has been at Channel 4 this time around since 2003, rejoining after a two-year stint at Channel Five.
Querulous
Definition:
(v.) Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
(v.) Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.
(v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Shortly after I tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation that puts women at a dramatically increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers, I landed in my breast oncologist’s office, querulously requesting a last-minute mammogram.
(2) Improvement rates for global symptoms were more than 80% for emotional incontinence and prejudice or querulous attitudes toward the nurses, and in headache, tinnitus and dizziness among the subjective symptoms.
(3) The differences are established in the manifestations and course of litigious-paranoid disorders of psychogenic personality-related origin and nonpathological querulousness.
(4) She was a querulous and bad-tempered country woman who was required to admire the hub of empire from the dispiriting vantage of a house in Lavender Gardens, at the top of Battersea Rise.
(5) Other qualities attached to extremism are less evident: you’d expect the hard Brexiters to be taking delight in their own victory, where instead there is only a querulous obsession with naysayers.
(6) There is a significant attempt on to try and drag the prime minister back to a posture where the government is more than just the querulous articulations of its base.
(7) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(8) An excessive intensity and length of querulousness, as related to the objective value of the psychogenesis, the more pronounced trend to litigiousness manifestations, progressive loss of their relation to situational cues, aggressive traits in behavior, are all characteristic of litigious-paranoid disorders.
(9) It will also point up errors introduced by the patient, omissions, and distortions in offering the subjective data which the physician must evaluate.SEVEN MAJOR PERSONALITY TYPES AND APPROPRIATE PHYSICIAN RESPONSES ARE OUTLINED: the dependent demanding oral patient, the orderly controlled obsessive, the dramatic seductive hysteric, the long-suffering masochist, the querulous paranoid, the overbearing narcissist and the aloof withdrawn schizoid.The non-psychiatrist can resolve complex and puzzling medical problems if he has an increased awareness of how emotional forces complicate illness and if he can exploit comprehensive history taking to the full.
(10) A study of a group of schizoprenic patients (74 cases) made it possible to distinguish 6 variants of postprocess pathological personality (hypochondric, asthenical, development with querulous reactions, of a protracted reaction type, withdrawal from contacts, reaction of an animation type, reactions of protests).
(11) Before bringing Hunt on air, Jones told his audience he had agreed with the environment minister that the exchange would be a “querulous interview … not an acrimonious exchange”.
(12) Pathologic litigiousness is characterized by a larger constitution-personality predisposition, lesser situational dependence and possibility of psychopathologic classification of querulous manifestations.
(13) In Germany and in Scandinavia, a diagnosis of querulent paranoia may be made, although this interesting and uncommon syndrome is rarely recognised in the UK.
(14) None of those films did well, and Hepburn sometimes seemed stilted or querulous.
(15) Both men's aides insisted the show of unity around economic policy was designed to tell the country and their own querulous backbenchers that they would not change course.
(16) These and other features of litigious-paranoid disorders can be used as differential diagnostic factors in differentiating between pathologic and nonpathologic querulousness.
(17) This idea flows into the stagnant pool of Tory gesture politics – one part state-aggrandising, one part telling the people, but only the particular, mean-minded, fearful, querulous people of your own devising, that you’re on their side.
(18) In addition, Germany, which would need to support a stronger line, will not be keen in election year to pick a fight with a querulous neighbour.
(19) • Con Coughlin in the Telegraph says the English "are paying too high a price for keeping a few querulous Scots on side".
(20) Hunt declared he would make environmental history during an interview with Alan Jones on Sydney radio on Thursday, a conversation the broadcaster characterised on air as “querulous but not acrimonious”.