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(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
fractious, recalcitrant, refractory
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
nettlesome, fractious, tetchy, testy, techy, petulant, peevish, irritable, pettish, scratchy, peckish, cranky
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(adjective) 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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