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quarrelsome

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quarrelsome
adjective
he was pleased to be leaving his quarrelsome neighbors behind:
argumentative, disputatious, disputative, contentious, confrontational, captious, factious, cavilling, pugnacious, combative, ready for a fight, defiant, hostile, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, militant, warring, fighting, battling;
threatening, litigious;
irascible, cantankerous, irritable, petulant, truculent, fiery, quick-tempered, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, choleric;
bickering, wrangling;
British, informal stroppy;
North American, informal scrappy.
antonyms peaceable.
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