Eksempler på quarrelsome

• Seeing his slovenly and quarrelsome wife's face, he leaves his meal and goes outside.

• To litigate cavilously, vexatiously, or from merely quarrelsome motives.

• To put all five quarrelsome women in their place, they were all presented as scolds.

• He was moody, quarrelsome and indifferent to her and their son.

• He needed also to maintain socially and emotionally comfortable circumstances for his guests by preserving harmony among a notoriously quarrelsome group of people.

• Friendly conversation was encouraged, while quarrelsome behavior, along with morally corrupt practices like swearing, gambling, and card-playing, would not be tolerated.

• From the ruins of this quarrelsome period he salvages a surprisingly coherent body of ideas, articulated through the writings of forgotten second- and third-tier intellectuals.

• From 87 patients for whom he had information about premorbid personality function, 35 had what he termed 'paranoid traits', in that they had been quarrelsome, sensitive, suspicious or generally hostile.