Adjective

(en adjective)

given to troublemaking

irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

* {{quote-news, year=2014

, date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation

, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}

* 1847 , ,

…in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.

* 1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew :

Her onely fault, and that is faults enough, / Is, that she is intollerable curst, / And shrow'd, and froward , so beyond all measure, / That were my state farre worser then it is, / I would not wed her for a mine of Gold.

* 1826 , George Crabb

A froward child becomes an untoward youth, who turns a deaf ear to all the admonitions of an afflicted parent.

* {{quote-book

, year=2007 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Peter Marshall , title=Mother Leakey and the Bishop: A Ghost Story , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Oxford Univ. Press , isbn=9780199273713 , page= , passage=… which so incensed this old hag that she grew as froward and sullen as the doctor, … }}

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, date= , year=c2009 , first= , last= , author=Mary Sidney , authorlink= , title=Froward Women , site=Mary Sidney citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-31 , passage=However, it does make one wonder — if William Shakespeare were the creator of all these froward , literate, and often powerful women, why did he let his own daughters grow up illiterate? }}

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, date=2012-06-09 , year= , first= , last= , author=Christine , authorlink= , title=Forward or Froward , site=Talk Wisdom citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-08-31 , passage=… the Communist/Marxist/Progressive/Globalist meaning of the term "Forward" can more accurately be labeled as Froward'. … campaign slogan choice would better resemble the term "' Froward " rather than the term "Forward." }}