fractious

/frˈækʃʌs/

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Adjective Satellite
stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
Adjective Satellite
easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Adjective Satellite
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
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