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.
