adjective
definition
Given to troublemaking.
definition
Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
Examples of fractious in a Sentence
For some unaccountable reason they had suddenly decided to become fractious.
Indeed, the game proved equally as fractious as Saturday's.
Differences Feel that things are getting a bit fractious?
We both got a little fractious during this escapade, however, and I decided we should call it a night.
From 212, free subjects empire-wide were able to be Roman citizens, and the provinces grew more fractious.
I repeat this the other way as it is more convenient for all, particularly fractious kids!
Brookfield is in a bit of a pickle, everyone's late and rushed and generally fractious.
I didn't realize things could get so apparently fractious so quickly.
Second half goal from Tony & Harvey finished off an increasingly fractious game, the students evidently not being used to losing.
It is also critical to cementing a potentially fractious executive, with four parties thrown together in involuntary coalition.
The usually fractious oppositions have to be united behind a single candidate if there is to be any chance of unseating the regime.
It was a harsh period for Greenlee as her fractious and oftentimes abrasive personality became even more difficult.