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quarrelsomeness

/kwawr-uhl-suhm, kwor-/US // ˈkwɔr əl səm, ˈkwɒr- //UK // (ˈkwɒrəlsəm) //

争吵,争吵声,争吵性,争论

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined to quarrel; argumentative; contentious.

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Examples

  • Premarin was marketed in 1941 “to relieve severe menopause symptoms,” Cleghorn reports, but it was also “touted as a relief for husbands burdened by moody, quarrelsome wives.”

  • Humans are a quarrelsome lot with a special talent for waging war.

  • A quarrelsome media, sneers and jeers, doubts and suspicions.

  • But her quarrelsome ideology does have an appealing contrarian energy.

  • It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.

  • Fitzwilliam was a man of hasty temper, Fitton was said to be vain-glorious and was certainly quarrelsome and litigious.

  • He was needed to set right his barony, for he himself grew weak and his vassals quarrelsome.

  • The notion of a tyrant God can create but abject, angry, quarrelsome, intolerant slaves.

  • They pleaded their conscience, and pretended to have received from Heaven the right to be quarrelsome, turbulent, and rebellious.

  • Preston Congregationalism is a very good, a very respectable, and a very quarrelsome creature.