fractious in English

adjective

1

(typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome.

they fight and squabble like fractious children

synonyms: grumpy, bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy, cantankerous, short-tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-humored, peevish, cross, waspish, crabby, crusty, prickly, touchy, snappish, cranky, ornery

adjective

grumpy, bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy, cantankerous, short-tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-humored, peevish, cross, waspish, crabby, crusty, prickly, touchy, snappish, cranky, ornery
wayward, unruly, uncontrollable, unmanageable, out of hand, obstreperous, difficult, headstrong, recalcitrant, intractable, disobedient, insubordinate, disruptive, disorderly, undisciplined, contrary, willful, refractory, contumacious
nettlesome, peevish, cranky, tetchy, irritable, scratchy, petulant, pettish, techy, testy, peckish
recalcitrant, refractory

Use "fractious" in a sentence

1. I muttered like a fractious housewife.

2. The children were predictably fractious.

3. Things could get more fractious, though.

4. Children become fractious when they are tired.

5. The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.

6. Children often get fractious and tearful when tired.

7. Maggie grew up in a large, fractious family.

8. 11 The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.

9. Chopra moved between them, calming their fractious nerves.

10. Carping: See: critical , criticism , denunciation , diatribe , fractious , petulant , querulous

11. He had worked with the diverse, fractious Iraqi opposition.

12. Truth, therefore, is socially fractious, while ignorance is bliss.

13. It is still fractious, and in many places corrupt.

14. Run by fractious triumvirate, it produced some noble plays.

15. 22 Truth, therefore, is socially fractious, while ignorance is bliss.

16. Imperious, fractious ladies who minced along, holding up their saris.

17. Caviling: See: contentious , critical , criticism , disaccord , disapprobation , dissension , dissent , dissenting , fractious

18. Disagreements would no longer have to be contained within fractious coalitions.

19. There were no fractious sects and gangsters to challenge his authority.

20. If we get any fractious children we always send for Helen.

21. Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas.

22. Criminology is a booming discipline, yet one which can appear divided and fractious

23. Bumptious is recorded in the late 1790s and is a blend of bump and fractious, meaning “unruly” or “irritable.” Bumptious bumps fractious up to the next level, meaning “offensively self-assertive.” Many …

24. Republicans have a fractious debate led by pro-choice governors, including California Gov.

25. Admittedly, they went to North Carolina as a fractious team with too many cliques.

26. But I must say she's not always as fractious as she appears now.

27. The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute.

28. • Admittedly, they went to North Carolina as a fractious team with too many Cliques

29. Synonyms for Brattish include bratty, naughty, bad, disobedient, mischievous, wayward, misbehaving, fractious, insubordinate and misbehaved

30. Synonyms for Crotchety include cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, irritable, testy, fiery, fractious, grouchy and peevish

31. Indeed, the task of rebuilding the country cannot be successfully accomplished in the current fractious atmosphere.

32. Synonyms for Cantankerous include irritable, cranky, cross, grumpy, irascible, testy, critical, fractious, grouchy and peevish

33. Darius also saw the opportunity to expand his empire into the fractious world of Ancient Greece.

34. In the 1630s, in particular, he presided over a fractious chapter, divided by personal and some ideological conflict.

35. Bumptious (adj.) "offensively assertive," 1803, probably a humorous slang coinage from bump on the pattern of fractious, etc

36. For years Harinarayana struggled to knit the country ' s fractious aeronautics community and had to build facilities virtually from scratch .

37. For not long after his return, Midvale-now like a family to him, if sometimes a fractious one-began to unravel.

38. As Tracy Adams herself admits, at first she had assumed that Isabeau's historical reputation--as someone who was Cupidinous, dissolute, greedy, quarrelsome, fractious, obese, and an unnatural mother--was factual

39. Almoravid: Reconquista and Riposte in Spain, 1085-1086, is a board wargame about a pair of tumultuous campaigns in the Spanish Reconquista - Leonese King Alfonso VI's advances against the 11th Century's fractious Muslim Taifa states, and the resulting intervention by a fundamentalist African Muslim army seeking to roll the Christians back.