fractiousness

fractious | American Dictionary

fractious
adjective
us/ˈfræk·ʃəs/
tending to argue, fight, or complain, and hard to control:
fractious relationships
the fractious nature of politics

Examples of fractious

fractious
In any case, the relationship between the line jobber and the weavers, in particular, grew increasingly fractious.
The emergence of a lively, raucous and fractious democracy did not transform official explanations for popular politics.
Despite all her obvious doubts and concerns about the fifties she defines it as a ' ' privileged interlude ' ' before the more fractious and troubled sixties.
These were often fractious disputes, often accompanied by violence directed at jobbers as well as supervisors and managers.
Among households of the same type, meanwhile, ones with more conjugal units were more fractious.
Without a commander with appointing and disciplinary powers, the army remained fractious, fragmented and undisciplined.
Consequently, resolution of a fractious stool dispute was made secondary to implementing an indirect rule experiment and capitalizing on burgeoning cocoa production.
Indeed, these home rule resolutions enjoyed the unique distinction of being the only ones unanimously passed at the notoriously fractious conference.
The relationship between jobbers and workers was often fractious, especially in the weaving shed.
Like many men with powerful temperaments he evoked rebellion in the fractious.
All these pieces tell stories of disruption and dispute, an often fractious interplay between common idiom, historical event, and text.
They were concentrated upon the increasingly fractious relationship between jobbers and workers.
After a difficult and fractious courtship, we have both learned to love or at least admire the perfection of one goddess - the creation lottery.
Political affairs could be equally fractious.
This has sometimes invited accusations of mutual 'logrolling', but that, it is said, is a comparativly small price to pay in societies where politics are dangerously fractious.
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