Definition of Fractiously

1. Adverb. In a peevish manner.

Exact synonyms: Peevishly, Querulously
Partainyms: Fractious, Peevish, Querulous

2. Adverb. In a fractious manner. "The horse was behaving fractiously and refused to jump"
Partainyms: Fractious

Definition of Fractiously

1. Adverb. In a fractious manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fractiously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fractiously

fractionals
fractionary
fractionate
fractionated
fractionates
fractionating
fractionating column
fractionation
fractionations
fractionator
fractionators
fractioned
fractioning
fractions
fractious
fractiously (current term)
fractiousness
fractiousnesses
fractogram
fractographic
fractographical
fractography
fracts
fractur
fractural
fracture
fracture bed
fracture by contrecoup
fracture dislocation
fracture fixation

Literary usage of Fractiously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... into the study," said Laura, fractiously ; " pray, who did you meet there when they carried you up the other night lo examine the marks on your back ? ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"And also in charging: 'Now, if this plaintiff here fractiously refused to pay his fare, the Jury can take that into consideration; but if he was within the ..."

3. Transcendentalism in New England: A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (1876)
"Best to follow his bent if bent beautifully ; else bending him gently, not fractiously, lest we snap or stiffen a stubbornness too stiff already. ..."

4. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"It was partly because the child himself looked as if he were going to cry — and that not fractiously, but despite a struggle with himself—that, ..."

5. The History of Political Literature, from the Earliest Times by Robert Blakey (1855)
"This was that I might un- fractiously, and becomingly steer and rule the power that was committed to me—What! thou knowest that no man may know any craft ..."

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