Fractious: alternatives and connections

Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

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Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed…

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Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not observant of duty or rules prescribed…

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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…

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Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

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Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

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Quality or state unruly.

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Quality or state unruly.

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Full of spirit; crank.

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Capable of being irriated.

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Inclined to eat; hungry.

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Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

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Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

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Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

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Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.

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Obstinate in disobedience; contumacious; stubborn; unmanageable; as, a refractory child; a refractory beast.

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Characterized by scratches.

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Peevish; fretful; irritable.

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Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.

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See Techy.

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