Crossword-Solution: FACTIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Factious | a. | Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. |
| Factious | a. | Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels. |
We have 66 clues for the answer “FACTIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing dissension | 1 answer |
| Creating dissension | 2 answers |
| Divisive | 2 answers |
| reforming | 26 answers |
| eruptible | 42 answers |
| anarchistic | 43 answers |
| insurrectionary | 44 answers |
| duelling | 44 answers |
| anarchical | 45 answers |
| resisting | 45 answers |
| Volcanic | 48 answers |
| treasonous | 52 answers |
| antithetic | 55 answers |
| guerrilla | 55 answers |
| litigious | 55 answers |
| Peppery | 56 answers |
| military | 56 answers |
| militaristic | 56 answers |
| Brassy. | 57 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
| Pig-headed | 60 answers |
| contumacious | 60 answers |
| cavilling | 61 answers |
| perfidious | 61 answers |
| Intractable | 62 answers |
| churning | 62 answers |
| outraged | 62 answers |
| Recalcitrant | 63 answers |
| exasperated | 63 answers |
| carping | 63 answers |
| Ranting | 63 answers |
| Disloyal | 63 answers |
| unaffiliated | 65 answers |
| obstreperous | 65 answers |
| Querulous | 65 answers |
| infuriated | 65 answers |
| in opposition | 65 answers |
| perverse | 66 answers |
| burned up | 67 answers |
| Head-strong? | 67 answers |
| stirred up | 67 answers |
| Resistant | 68 answers |
| disobedient | 68 answers |
| fractious | 68 answers |
| Vengeful | 68 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| militant | 69 answers |
| Disturbed | 69 answers |
| discontented | 71 answers |
| provoked | 71 answers |
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Sentences with FACTIOUS (5)
Those philosophers who (carrying into morals and into history their gloomy and factious whims) affirm that the human race had originally neither chiefs nor kings, know nothing of the nature of man.
But their chief skill is in riding: I have seen them dash over barrancos to get at the factious, who thought themselves quite secure, and then they would fall upon them on a sudden and kill them to a man.
But let such military persons be assured, and well reputed of, rather than factious and popular; holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state; or else the remedy, is worse than the disease.
Every part of Galicia abounds with robbers and factious, so that almost all travelling is at an end, and the road to Santiago is so bad that no one is permitted to travel it unless in company with the weekly post, which goes attended by a strong military escort.
The consciousness of that melancholy truth, inspires a degree of persevering fury, seldom to be found in those civil wars which are artificially supported for the benefit of a few factious and designing leaders.
Quotes with FACTIOUS (2)
Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only “frail.” They are not artistic:…
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).