(a.) having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.

aggressive bellicose belligerent beyond control bickering breachy catty combative contumacious defiant disputatious divisive eristic factional factious fractious fretful incorrigible indocile indomitable insuppressible intractable irascible irrepressible irritable litigious nagging naggy obstreperous out of hand partisan peevish pettish petulant polarizing polemic pugnacious quarrelsome querulous recalcitrant refractory resentful resistant resisting restive unbiddable uncontrollable ungovernable unmalleable unmanageable unmoldable unruly unsubmissive vixenish vixenly wild wrangling