Frac·tious a. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Syn: -- Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish.
-- Frac*tious*ly, v. -- Frac*tious*ness, n.
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fractiously
adv 1: in a peevish manner [syn: peevishly, querulously]
2: in a fractious manner; "the horse was behaving fractiously
and refused to jump"