fractious

About 0.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Given to troublemaking.
2. adjective Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.

Similar words

nettlesome irritable tetchy testy ill-natured petulant pettish peevish difficult hard

Often followed by

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Word family

fractiously fractiousness fractiousnesses