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fractious: Meaning and Definition of
frac•tious
Pronunciation: (frak'shus), [key] — adj.
- refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man.
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