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factious
Part of speech: AdjectiveGiven to or characterized by a tendency to oppose; quarrelsome; turbulent.
Usage examples "factious":- But as applied to the state of Ireland, to the form of our commonwealth, to the parties that divide us, and to the dispositions of the leading men in those parties, I cannot hesitate to lay before you my opinion, that, whilst any kind of discouragements and disqualifications remain on the Catholics, an handle will be made by a factious power utterly to defeat the benefits of any civil rights they may apparently possess. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
- Lieber Gott, said I, these are thieves, these are factious; and so they were. - "The Bible in Spain", George Borrow.
- The eternal clamours of a selfish and factious people. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.