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easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control- The fractious members are trying to agree on a policy.
fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control
- The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him.Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
- a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
- It was the same thing Tom had done when he rode a drunken cowboy's fractious horse in the dusty street of Bayfield to win a dollar.Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
- Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper.Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- She fractious, you know.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- He rode the horse out into the noon traffic and the horse was fractious and scared and it skittered about in the street and kicked a great dish into the side of a bus to the delight of the passengers who leaned out and called challenges from the safety of the windows.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- an incorrigibly fractious young man
- Then Thuvia was lifted to the least fractious thoat, Xodar and Carthoris mounted two others, and we set out at a rapid pace toward the east.Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Gods of Mars
- Omer, 'to keep a fractious old lady company, they didn't very well agree, and she didn't stop.Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- I never see Uncle Silas speak up so sharp and fractious before.Twain, Mark -- Tom Sawyer Detective
- fractious components of a communication system
- rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
- Attolia, surrounded by her fractious barons, continued to be formal and remote.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- The leaders were tired and acting fractious.Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
- One thing troubled her upon that perfect day, that Jennifer was cutting her first tooth, and was hot and fractious.Nevil Shute -- On the Beach
- There was nothing wavering in it; no little trick to catch a transitory approbation from the discontented, or to soothe the fractious.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Prusias might have been king, but it seemed his kingdom comprised a somewhat fractious confederacy, where alliances shifted like the sand.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- She was still too heavy with sleep to sound really fractious, but it was apparent that she felt there was some kind of injustice in the air.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- That is a fractious team for mortal men to master!Homer -- The Iliad
fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control
fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control
fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control
fractious = easily upset and resistant to control