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  • 81disputatious — I adjective argumentative, bickering, cantankerous, captious, competitive, contentious, contrary, controversial, debatable, dialectic, discordant, discrepant, disputable, disputative, dissenting, dissentious, divided, fractious, hostile,… …

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  • 82fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …

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  • 83froward — I adjective cantankerous, captious, contrary, contumacious, contumax, cross, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disobedient, fractious, headstrong, indocile, insubmissive, insubordinate, intractable, irascible, irritable, moody, obstinate, peevish,… …

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  • 84irascible — I adjective bad tempered, belligerent, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, cranky, cross, disobedient, disputatious, dissentious, easily riled, edgy, fiery, fractious, froward, hostile, huffy, ill humored, ill natured,… …

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  • 85mean — I (average) adjective central, grouping, intermediary, medial, median, medium, mesial, middle, midmost, statistical average II (base) adjective abject, brutal, contemptible, degrading, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, heinous, ignoble,… …

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  • 86perverse — I adjective bad, bad natured, bad tempered, base, bellicose, belligerent, boorish, bumptious, cantankerous, captious, churlish, contemptible, contrary, contumacious, contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, debauched,… …

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  • 87querulous — I adjective bewailing, canting, captious, carping, censorious, clamorous, complaining, contentious, cross, difficult, difficult to please, discontented, disputatious, dissatisfied, exceptious, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumbling …

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  • 88débordant — débordant, ante [ debɔrdɑ̃, ɑ̃t ] adj. • 1869; de déborder 1 ♦ Qui déborde. Toiture débordante. 2 ♦ Fig. Qui se manifeste avec vigueur, abondance. Joie débordante. ⇒ expansif, exubérant. Imagination débordante. ⇒ fécond, fertile. Être débordant… …

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  • 89étourdi — étourdi, ie [ eturdi ] adj. et n. • esturdi, estourdiXIIIe; Estordit n. pr. 1086; lat. pop. °exturditus, de turdus « grive » 1 ♦ Qui agit sans réflexion, ne porte pas attention à ce qu il fait. ⇒ distrait, écervelé, évaporé, inattentif,… …

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  • 90impétueux — impétueux, euse [ ɛ̃petɥø, øz ] adj. • 1220; bas lat. impetuosus, de impetus « élan, attaque » 1 ♦ Littér. Dont l impulsion est violente et rapide. Torrent impétueux. Vent impétueux. ⇒ déchaîné, 1. fort. Par métaph. « la marche impétueuse des… …

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