Synonym: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy. Similar words: fraction, attraction, practitioner, interaction, fracture, practice, practical, hyperactive. Meaning: ['frækʃəs] 
adj. 1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control 2. easily irritated or annoyed 3. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.
adj. 1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control 2. easily irritated or annoyed 3. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome. 
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31. The art of Belgian political leadership consists of bringing consensus to a broad and fractious coalition.
32. The 60 regular members of the Meetup grouphad been just as fractious and strong-willed as the users of the Ron Paulforums.
33. The anti - LDP coalition government that fractious and the LDP returned to power within 11 months.
34. Those governments generally ignored their fractious Tuareg minorities, leaving them to wander the desert with their flocks of camels and goats.
35. Iraq remains violent and fractious and its political institutions are weak.
36. For decades Turks had endured a string of fractious and corrupt coalitions, interspersed by military coups.
37. All are members of a close-knit but fractious group that has dominated the American debate over the Arab - Israeli problem.
38. Above all, he sees Europe as it is: a fractious collection of 27 members.
More similar words: fraction, attraction, practitioner, interaction, fracture, practice, practical, hyperactive, in practice, attractive, retractile, practically, extracting, interactive, voracious, out of practice, sharp practice, voraciously, action, reaction, punctilious, take action, sanctimonious, benefaction, transaction, seditious, bumptious, ambitious, satisfaction, licentious.