fractious

Preposition: in

half: The Chamber gets fractious in the second half of the meeting, and I for one would be more content with some real food.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

get: Differences Feel that things are getting a bit fractious?

Modifies a noun

• debate: After a fractious debate a decision was taken for a second march to Symonds office.
• relationship: Offering helpful advice, Nicole's words provide Gianni with the glue needed to mend his fractious relationship with Paolo.
• child: And splashing in tepid water will cool a hot fractious child.
• group: Drill sergeants were prepared for infighting among Iraq's fractious ethnic groups but say there's been little of that.
• opposition: But within the fractious Iraqi opposition, he remains a divisive figure, derided by some detractors as autocratic and arrogant.
• nature: Nowadays, it takes about five pints before we start to completely disagree but that fractious nature certainly flavors the music.

Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: Second half goal from Tony & Harvey finished off an increasingly fractious game, the students evidently not being used to losing.
• somewhat: D somewhat fractious: he was up early despite y'day so perhaps tired.
• potentially: It is also critical to cementing a potentially fractious executive, with four parties thrown together in involuntary coalition.
• generally: Brookfield is in a bit of a pickle, everyone's late and rushed and generally fractious.
• particularly: I repeat this the other way as it is more convenient for all, particularly fractious kids!
• little: We both got a little fractious during this escapade, however, and I decided we should call it a night.

Used with adjective complement

• become: For some unaccountable reason they had suddenly decided to become fractious.
• get: I didn't realize things could get so apparently fractious so quickly.
• grow: From 212, free subjects empire-wide were able to be Roman citizens, and the provinces grew more fractious.
• prove: Indeed, the game proved equally as fractious as Saturday's.