fractious 的定义
- refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man.
fractious 近义词
grouchy, cross
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- It’s been a fractious and scary year, but these pandemic babies will still laugh deliriously at the smallest of forgotten joys, like squeezing mashed potatoes through their fingers or grabbing the dog’s nose.
- On the other hand, there’s no way to know the Taliban’s true intentions or whether the often fractious group has a united view.
- In her stories, everyday problems — the challenges of managing an unwieldy paper route, dealing with a fractious sibling or coping with an absent parent — became tales of triumph.
- Companies that collectively pour millions of dollars each year into campaigns through employee-funded PACs are registering their worry and anger about last week’s chaos with a reexamination of their role in powering the nation’s fractious politics.
- Relationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious.
- Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check.
- The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative.
- He was well aware of the fractious history between Congress and the White House on Gitmo and was determined to start anew.
- We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood.
- "I felt tired because I met no one I cared for," she answered, in rather fractious tones.
- He could not think of one, for being alone made him feel fractious, yet he could not bear to meet any one.
- We expect to be caught with chaff, like fractious colts coquetting with the halter and secretly not unwilling to be caught.
- He had been regarding with interest a shackled-kneed varlet holding a halberd in his arms as if it had been a fractious bairn.
- In her secret heart Eunice knew that when her sister was tired out she was fractious; she loved her too well to say cross words.