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fractious

English

  1. 🔊 unpredictably difficult in operation
    “rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas”
  2. 🔊 stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness”
  3. 🔊 easily irritated or annoyed
    “an incorrigibly fractious young man”

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