fractious
烦躁不安,烦躁不安的,烦躁的,烦乱的
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- : 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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It’s been a fractious and scary year, but these pandemic babies will still laugh deliriously at the smallest of forgotten joys, like squeezing mashed potatoes through their fingers or grabbing the dog’s nose.
On the other hand, there’s no way to know the Taliban’s true intentions or whether the often fractious group has a united view.
In her stories, everyday problems — the challenges of managing an unwieldy paper route, dealing with a fractious sibling or coping with an absent parent — became tales of triumph.
Companies that collectively pour millions of dollars each year into campaigns through employee-funded PACs are registering their worry and anger about last week’s chaos with a reexamination of their role in powering the nation’s fractious politics.
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.