adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although colorful, active, and good feeders, they are apt to be a little quarrelsome .
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Conversely, to be angry, quarrelsome , or brave marks one off as not human.
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Even quarrelsome members of the leadership, like William Joyce, appear to have been attracted to the movement by such motives.
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He depicts his noisy, disordered, life-loving, quarrelsome , self-absorbed family with a historian's detachment.
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Leese had a pronounced anti-authoritarian streak in his behaviour and a quarrelsome personality.
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Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome , uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church.
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They are quarrelsome , politically unstable and poor; some are preoccupied with fighting.
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They became cranky and quarrelsome , and stopped most of their activities in order to conserve energy.