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fractious

/'frækʃəs/

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adjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
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"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"

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recalcitrant refractory disobedient
adjective
easily irritated or annoyed
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"an incorrigibly fractious young man"

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cranky irritable nettlesome peckish peevish pettish petulant scratchy techy testy tetchy ill-natured
adjective
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
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"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas" "fractious components of a communication system"

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difficult hard

Definition that contains fractious

fractiously in a fractious manner