fractious

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.