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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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Laura was an uneasy baby, though more anxious than fractious.† (source)
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One of the boars grew fractious, shoving and grunting to air his authority.† (source)
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The gentlemen were all quarrelsome and fractious.† (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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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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She fractious, you know.† (source)
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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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My source tells me the mood got very fractious.† (source)
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Attolia, surrounded by her fractious barons, continued to be formal and remote.† (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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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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There was nothing wavering in it; no little trick to catch a transitory approbation from the discontented, or to soothe the fractious.† (source)
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