Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a quarrelsome manner; with a quarrelsome temper; petulantly.

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  • adverb In a quarrelsome manner.

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Examples

  • Writing: "Cold Futures" -- I'm not sure if the hero and villain will live happily (if quarrelsomely) ever after, or it's just a one night stand.

    May 6th, 2007 2007

  • "We must pull together as Zimbabweans with a total commitment to the progress and prosperity of all our people or else we shall sink and collapse quarrelsomely and separately," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • A squirrel frisked up an oak and barked quarrelsomely at these strange, noiseless visitors.

    The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • ARJILLAX [_quarrelsomely_] I was taken in by your talk.

    Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • ARJILLAX [_to Ecrasia, quarrelsomely_] What do you know about it?

    Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Richard, in his shirtsleeves, looks at him half quarrelsomely for a moment; then, with a nod, acknowledges that the minister has got the better of him, and sits down on the seat.

    The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

  • I discovered that Piazza San Marco is every morning swept by troops of ragged facchini, who gossip noisily and quarrelsomely together over their work.

    Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878

  • By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

  • By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

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