Sample sentences for FRACTIOUS

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Definition

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

fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control

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

fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control

She fractious, you know.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

fractious = easily upset and annoyed; or tending to fight and difficult to control

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

fractious = easily upset and resistant to control

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

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