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Definition of Fractiously
1. Adverb. In a peevish manner.
2. Adverb. In a fractious manner. "The horse was behaving fractiously and refused to jump"
Definition of Fractiously
1. Adverb. In a fractious manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fractiously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fractiously
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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