Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a quarrelsome manner; with a quarrelsome temper; petulantly.
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- adverb In a
quarrelsome manner.
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Examples
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Writing: "Cold Futures" -- I'm not sure if the hero and villain will live happily (if quarrelsomely) ever after, or it's just a one night stand.
May 6th, 2007 2007
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"We must pull together as Zimbabweans with a total commitment to the progress and prosperity of all our people or else we shall sink and collapse quarrelsomely and separately," he said.
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A squirrel frisked up an oak and barked quarrelsomely at these strange, noiseless visitors.
The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905
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ARJILLAX [_quarrelsomely_] I was taken in by your talk.
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903
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ARJILLAX [_to Ecrasia, quarrelsomely_] What do you know about it?
Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Richard, in his shirtsleeves, looks at him half quarrelsomely for a moment; then, with a nod, acknowledges that the minister has got the better of him, and sits down on the seat.
The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw 1903
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By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.
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I discovered that Piazza San Marco is every morning swept by troops of ragged facchini, who gossip noisily and quarrelsomely together over their work.
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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