How To Use Quarrelsome In A Sentence
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According to the British District Gazetteer for 1904, ‘with some exceptions these priests are ignorant and quarrelsome, and are by no means popular in the neighbourhood.’
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René Descartes has always been one of the more appealing philosophers, not least because he was so human, quarrelsome and frequently bone idle.
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Foreshadowing the events of the coming French Revolution, Sébastien wrote, ‘The people in this faubourg are meaner, more volatile, more quarrelsome and more ready to mutiny than in any of the other quarters [of Paris].’
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Then, too, Michelangelo had a quarrelsome disposition, and he was harsh in his criticism of others.
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His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists.
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So if you see history as politics viewed from afar, you begin to understand that history is a controversial, argumentative and quarrelsome subject - much the same as politics.
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By now his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious.
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Under our world exists a chaotic, quarrelsome and crowded underground society of fearsome but stupid goblins, officious gnomes, sprites, technically adept centaurs and other creatures.
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Leese had a pronounced anti-authoritarian streak in his behaviour and a quarrelsome personality.
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He turned into a Dublin ‘character‘: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.’
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Although colorful, active, and good feeders, they are apt to be a little quarrelsome.
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described as ‘occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.’
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The first, the retort courteous; the second, the quip modest; the third, the reply churlish; the fourth, the reproof valiant; the fifth, the countercheck quarrelsome; the sixth, the lie with circumstance; the seventh, the lie direct.
Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
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The diary portrays his family as quarrelsome and malicious.
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I. i.82 (230,5) [young squarer] A _squarer_ I take to be a cholerick, quarrelsome fellow, for in this sense Shakespeare uses the word to _square_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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If not altogether silent, he has been less obviously quarrelsome too.
Times, Sunday Times
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Piercy is a rugged soldier, cholerick, and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage.
Preface to Shakespeare
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Even the big bald-face grew clumsy and blind and quarrelsome, in the end to be dragged down by a handful of yelping huskies.
THE LAW OF LIFE
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The negative side came about largely through his personality which is described in as: -… occasionally choleric, quarrelsome, and given to invectives.
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And then there's the ungainsayable observation (once it's explained) ‘that a bus full of rancorous, quarrelsome, and aggressive passengers is bound sooner or later to have a collision’.
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The males defend their territories vigorously and are altogether rather quarrelsome, often chasing off small birds of other species.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as that did not satisfy him, and as he seemed to be one of those quarrelsome fellows that are the bane of every community, I took him suddenly by the throat and the shoulder, and bent his neck with the old, quick turn till I heard it crack, and had unhanded him before any of his neighbours had seen what had befallen.
The Lost Continent
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One of the disqualifications for leadership in a church, and it should similarly be a disqualification from an office of public trust, is someone who is quarrelsome or overbearing.
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One of the disqualifications for leadership in a church, and it should similarly be a disqualification from an office of public trust, is someone who is quarrelsome or overbearing.
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The canons of the thirteen collegiate churches of his diocese were idle, or quarrelsome, or ignorant, or drunken, or lecherous, or all of the above; in his struggles to reform them, he had to invoke the help of the papal nuncio.
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The Chinese people are naturally sober, peaceful, and industrious; they fly from intoxicating, quarrelsome samshoo, to the more congenial opium-pipe, which soothes the weary brain, induces sleep, and invigorates the tired body.
Historic China, and other sketches
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Hooke was a difficult man, fiercely competitive, touchy, quarrelsome, and a vicious critic.
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He tends to get quarrelsome when he is drunk.
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If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the reproof valiant: if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the lie circumstantial, and the lie direct.
Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
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Neither did his frank and manly deportment, though indicating a total indifference to danger, bear the least resemblance to that of the bravoes or swashbucklers of the day, amongst whom Henry was sometimes unjustly ranked by those who imputed the frays in which he was so often engaged to a quarrelsome and violent temper, resting upon a consciousness of his personal strength and knowledge of his weapon.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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By nature they are naturally quick-witted, bold, hasty, quarrelsome and courageous.
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His nameless sorrows ensure that he stands aloof, his distance from the other characters endowing him with a wisdom absent in the quarrelsome officers and journalists.
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Campbell has taken an uncharacteristic vow of silence, leaving it to the others in this quarrelsome quartet to talk of his achievements and share anecdotes of his colourful career.
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Do I feel bad that I was done in by a 13-year-old boy and didn't know that "termagant" means me at times ... a quarrelsome woman?
NBC Treats Word Games Like the Olympic Games
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The intelligence offices decided that the Scouts were quarrelsome and difficult to manage and so substituted girls for boys.
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Indie dance is back, so is Balearic music, there's talk of a grunge revival, and you can't move for shoegazing, albeit under the guise of chillwave, a title arrived at after a lengthy, quarrelsome but ultimately successful meeting called to devise an even worse name for a genre than shoegazing.
The Guardian World News
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brent, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp, querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover, were beyond the power of written expression.
Selected Stories of Bret Harte
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Whenever he took cocaine, he became violent and quarrelsome.
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He turned into a Dublin ‘character’: a querulous, quarrelsome countryman with a sharp tongue and an axe to grind.
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[292] The retort courteous, if not even the countercheck quarrelsome,
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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On the few occasions I've listened to the show, I wondered how anyone can stomach such quarrelsome bile that early in the morning.
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If again, it was not well cut, he would answer, I spake not true: this is called the reproof valiant: if again, it was not well cut, he would say, I lie: this is called the countercheck quarrelsome: and so to the lie circumstantial, and the lie direct.
Act V. Scene IV. As You Like It
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He is not a wrangler, nor quarrelsome, and keeps himself out of all kinds of mischief, which other boys run into.
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quarrelsome when drinking
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We visited what is called the silversmith's quarter, but it was utterly unlike what such a locality would be elsewhere, composed of one-story mud cabins, in narrow filthy lanes full of chickens, mangy dogs, cats, and quarrelsome children.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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You rather want to escape with her from this cramped, quarrelsome little world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Disillusioned by both Stalinism and the conformity of cold war America, he and his wife, Mickey, questioned whether an effective left could be built at all from its quarrelsome subculture of factions.
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Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene — in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.
The Englishwoman in America
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The writers and intellectuals in the Congress for Cultural Freedom were, like writers everywhere, temperamental and quarrelsome.
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Though Cook was a seasoned campaigner known for beating the odds, he could not overcome a severe loss in public confidence at the end of a quarrelsome and often hostile primary campaign.
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Balboa had a reputation as a fierce and quarrelsome young man.
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Chapati Mystery a blog by Sepoy, "a doctoral candidate in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations department at the University of Chicago" has a great post about the history of the word termagant 'a quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.'
Languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.
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Quarrelsome drosky drivers, incongruous mills, and the thousand trumperies of the place, were all forgotten in the perfect beauty of the scene — in the full, the joyous realisation of my ideas of Niagara.
The Englishwoman in America
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Percy is a rugged soldier, cholerick and quarrelsome, and has only the soldier's virtues, generosity and courage.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
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Luther adds the final piece to the happy ending, giving the cruise tickets away to his formerly quarrelsome neighbors (the wife has cancer and the husband has been demoted).
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They may be impulsive, manipulative, reckless, quarrelsome, and consistent liars.
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One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the “Gazette” with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, “You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.”
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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All these failings point to a public transit system thought of by officials as only more social welfare for the quarrelsome masses.
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It was a quarrelsome marriage.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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That said, a Japanese beer company seems to have come up with an excellent way to handle noisy, quarrelsome children: give them a drink.
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The moon will make family relationships easier to handle and you get even quarrelsome people to work in harmony.
The Sun
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The sepulchral boom of the bittern, the shriek of the curlew, the scream of passing brant, the wrangling of quarrelsome teal, the sharp querulous protest of the startled crane, and syllabled complaint of the "killdeer" plover were beyond the power of written expression.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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The Crusades did manage to reduce the number of quarrelsome and contentious knights in Europe.
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He even called the astute Terrapin a humbug, and toward midnight grew quarrelsome.
Bohemian Days Three American Tales
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During the trip, they had grown restive, quarrelsome, and hungry.
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To his face she referred to him as a doited sumph, but to Grizel pleading for him she admitted that despite his warts and quarrelsome legs he was a great big muckle sonsy, stout, buirdly well set up, wise-like, havering man.
Tommy and Grizel