Sample Sentences forfractious (auto-selected)
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The fractious members are trying to agree on a policy.fractious = quarrelsome (tending to argue or fight amongst themselves)
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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. (source)fractious = easily upset and resistant to control
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It's full of rage, a fractious child screaming, "I hate you" at a parent.† (source)
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Herschel was willing to accept and shoulder more than his share of responsibility for their fractious relationship, but he could not begin to comprehend getting cut out completely.† (source)
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In the years when he was away at the war and the University, she had turned from an overalled, fractious, gun-slinging creature into a reasonable facsimile of a human being.† (source)
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The baby's awful fractious, and I'm clean worn out attending to him.† (source)
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She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.† (source)
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His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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The leaders were tired and acting fractious.† (source)
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Bill Ramsey looks on sourly at the fractious scene.† (source)
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She fractious, you know.† (source)
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The clans were a fractious lot, as Eragon well knew, and even as king, Orik had difficulty commanding their obedience.† (source)
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Prusias might have been king, but it seemed his kingdom comprised a somewhat fractious confederacy, where alliances shifted like the sand.† (source)
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Neighboring Bangor was largely Welsh and English, and the next town over was overwhelmingly German, which meant, given the fractious relationships between the English and Germans and Italians in those years, that Roseto stayed strictly for Rosetans.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper.† (source)
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