Minister Adams took him for pugnacious and quarrelsome; the " Lives" of Russell, Gladstone, and Granville show him to have been good-tempered, conciliatory, avoiding quarrels.
On occasion he treated parliament with disdain when his wishes were not speedily implemented and prorogued the Barebones parliament when it seemed overly quarrelsome about his ideas.
You become stupid, restless, and irritable; rude to strangers and dangerous toward your friends; clumsy, maudlin, and quarrelsome; a nuisance to yourself and everybody about you.
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, is pushing for swinging spending cuts as he must to keep his narrow, quarrelsome majority together.
As they came nearer a dozen dogs ran barking toward them-gaunt wolf hounds, a huge great Dane, a nimble-footed collie and a number of yapping, quarrelsome fox terriers.