factious in English

adjective

1

relating or inclined to a state of faction.

a factious country

synonyms: divided, split, schismatic, discordant, conflicting, argumentative, disagreeing, disputatious, quarreling, quarrelsome, clashing, warring, at loggerheads, at odds, rebellious, mutinous

adjective

• divided, split, schismatic, discordant, conflicting, argumentative, disagreeing, disputatious, quarreling, quarrelsome, clashing, warring, at loggerheads, at odds, rebellious, mutinous
• dissentious, divisive

Use "factious" in a sentence

1. Fabvier was factious ; Bavoux was revolutionary.

2. A fActious group is one that breaks away, or wants to

3. These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows.

4. Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.

5. Many of the old puritan colonists retained their factious temperaments in the New World.

6. 3 These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows.

7. Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person.

8. They are not practical instruments of warfare, though they genuinely reflect the factious bellicose tendencies of their builders.

9. The Confederacy was fActious — they wanted out of the Union, but we know how that turned out.

10. "They told us there would be barriers up, but there is more protection here than Fairfield in Factious Diseases Hospital , " he said.

11. And the main reason was that reactionary and factious opposition led the Government to seek and obtain an immediate dissolution of Parliament.

12. What is a “Busybody”? Here is the definition from Strong’s Concordance: Definition: one who meddles in things alien to his calling or in matters belonging to others; factious

13. An Almanac for 1582 predicts the commons will be "factious...quarrelous, impatient, and outragious, one envying the estate and degree of another: as the poor the rich, the ploughman the gentleman."

14. Bugbeared with Popery and power despotic, Tyrannic government and leagues exotic: The Revolution’s a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation: Unjustly forced King James’s abdication

15. Bugbeared with Popery and power despotic, Tyrannic goverment and leagues exotic: The Revolution's a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation Unjustly forced King James's abdication

16. Bugbeared with popery and power despotic, Tyrannic government, and leagues exotic: The revolution's a fanatic plot, William a tyrant, Sunderland a sot: A factious army and a poisoned nation, Unjustly forced King James's abdication

17. ‘These must be Chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.’ ‘These fans differ somewhat from the stereotypical science fiction fan; most significantly, the group is composed Chiefly of women.’