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Перевод: quarrelsome

[прилагательное]
вздорный; придирчивый; задиристый; сварливый; драчливый

Тезаурус:

1. A large variety of unpleasant events (what psychologists call "aversive stimuli") can set the stage for the development of conflict and a chain reaction of quarrelsome behaviours - for example, bullying and teasing of a painful, threatening or humiliating nature; depriving the weaker child of his or her property, rights and opportunities.
2. He is angry, suspicious, overbearing; he can be very like the Zuckerman berated in the fiction as "this unsatisfiable, suspect, quarrelsome novelist".
3. For example, priests must not be "arrogant or quarrelsome", but rather "friendly, sincere in word and in heart, prudent and discreet, and generous and available for service".
4. The Olympic officials also require integration between South Africa's quarrelsome and sometimes racially based sporting administrative bodies, and the assent of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa.
5. For example, there's a minor character in The Possessed , a quarrelsome eccentric lady, and she believes Lake Geneva gives people toothache.
6. Although young children (say, from eighteen months to six years) can be quarrelsome (as we shall see in chapter 8), pro-social actions may be seen in some 10-;20 per cent of all social contacts.
7. Mr Anguita has knocked some discipline into a coalition of quarrelsome, microscopic Communist parties and renegades from the Socialist Party.
8. Previously you had to be part of a quarrelsome, uneconomic unit of orthodoxy known as a church.
9. He only drank when he was worried, she claimed, then he became quarrelsome, but never with his friends.
10. You have a wide choice of denominations - and if you feel particularly quarrelsome and contentious you can always set up your very own sect.
11. Travelling with yaks needs a certain kind of nerve as they can be mean and quarrelsome animals: perhaps that is why Peter Somerville-Large named the two hairy four-foots who allowed him to travel with them through Nepal and Tibet, Mucker and Sod.
12. They may be driven to a frenzy by the pains, with a total loss of consideration for others; they may be quarrelsome, disputative and uncivil.
13. Mrs Thatcher was still highly visible at international summits, but often now as an obstructive, quarrelsome figure.