| contentious | hostile, belligerent, quarrelsome |
| currish | mean-spirited, snarling, quarrelsome |
| curst | bad-tempered, quarrelsome, shrewish, cross |
| dissentious | quarrelsome, argumentative, fractious |
| litigious | quarrelsome, contentious, marred by disputes |
| quarrelous | quarrelsome, argumentative, cantankerous |
| scambling | contentious, rough, quarrelsome, turbulent |
| squarer | brawler, swaggerer, quarrelsome person |
| unpeaceable | quarrelsome, contentious, noisily argumentative |
| wrangling | quarrelsome, disputatious, argumentative |