fractious
I
adjective
apt to quarrel, bad-tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to cavil, disputatious, exceptious, excitable, faultfinding, fretful, grouchy, hot-tempered, ill-tempered, impatient, inclined to anger, indocile, inflammable, irascible, irritable, moodish, moody, morosus, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, quarrelsome, querulous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, sharp-tempered, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, spleenful, spleeny, splenetic, stubborn, surly, temperamental, testy, touchy, unmanageable, unruly, untractable, waspish
II
index
adverse (hostile), contumacious, disobedient, froward, insubordinate, negative, perverse, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, recalcitrant, restive, uncontrollable, unruly
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006