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fractiousness

/frak-shuhs/US // ˈfræk ʃəs //UK // (ˈfrækʃəs) //

分裂性,裂变性,裂缝,裂变

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
    • : readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man.

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Examples

  • To suggest otherwise, especially in these fractious times, is to disserve the electoral process.

  • Similarly, the more fragmented the CTV device landscape, the more fractious the CTV ad market becomes for advertisers.

  • Absent the filibuster, we would still be a uniquely fractured, fractious system.

  • There’s also a crowded, fractious GOP primary in Tennessee’s 1st Congressional District.

  • Ten beds, and only one occupied, by a freckled, tousled quintessence of fractiousness in a blue wrapper.

  • Perhaps this sort of fractiousness is the usual sign of approaching illness with children.

  • "Why, I depended on seeing Mr. Oldfield," said he, with the fractiousness of a man recently ill.

  • That veteran lady appeared to be in a state of mind which, when it occurs in children, is called fractiousness.

  • He feared the antagonism of the officers might be aroused, in which event we should be made to suffer for our fractiousness.