fractiously

How To Use fractiously In A Sentence

• The council had promised a review of the rating system and had put the idea out for consultation, but when it came to the vote, it fractiously split down the middle.
• But it's only a third of the amount I asked for," protested Demi fractiously. 'Whaddya mean, no adverbs?' asked Tom swiftly.
• Republicans may be struggling in the dunk tank since the last national elections, holding onto each other for warmth and flotation in the Senate and House and fractiously searching for a new overarchi ... Phil Bronstein: GOP Pols Believe in Outsourcing -- the Dirty Work
• More recently, the Warren Buffet-inspired tax debate, regarding whether millionaires should pay at least the same tax rate as the common worker, has surfaced fractiously, pitting President Obama and Democrats against most Republicans. America cannot afford such inequality | Michael Shank
• More recently, the Warren Buffett-inspired tax debate, regarding whether millionaires should pay at least the same tax rate as the common worker, has surfaced fractiously, pitting President Obama and Democrats against most Republicans. Michael Shank: Why 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests? America's High Rates of Poverty & Income Inequality
• For all of the rhetoric about teamwork in the health professions, most work is fractiously divided.
• the horse was behaving fractiously and refused to jump
• ‘You should know that if you were at a convent school,’ he says, a bit fractiously.
• Republicans may be struggling in the dunk tank since the last national elections, holding onto each other for warmth and flotation in the Senate and House and fractiously searching for a new overarching identity to avoid being the outlying party for the next several decades. Phil Bronstein: GOP Pols Believe in Outsourcing -- the Dirty Work
• The nature of civilization is that it is a framework wherein people may live together, however fractiously.