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fractious s. [
cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy] easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
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fractious s. 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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