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quarrelsome
[kwawr-uhl-suhm, kwor-]
quarrelsome
/ ˈɒəə /
adjective
inclined to quarrel or disagree; belligerent
Other Word Forms
- quarrelsomely adverb
- quarrelsomeness noun
- unquarrelsome adjective
- ˈܲdzԱ noun
- ˈܲdz adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of quarrelsome1
Example Sentences
The opposition Socialist Party said the country had been "liberated from a political hostage situation", with leader Jimmy Dijk calling the governing coalition "four right-wing quarrelsome parties that achieve nothing".
According to Penguin Random House, the book depicts the story of "two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, who experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity".
But in grieving his lost youth, he became quarrelsome and sometimes belligerent.
Paranoid, controlling, quarrelsome and rigid, LadyBird turns out to have a traumatic secret of her own.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to lay out how he and his quarrelsome governing coalition aim to fix things in a speech to parliament Tuesday.
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