factious

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These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries for factious and flagitious fellows.
這些聚會(huì)不應(yīng)成爲(wèi)幫派鬭毆和兇殘的人的庇護(hù)所。
Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the new world.
許多清教徒開拓者在新大陸仍保持他們好爭論的脾氣。
By contrast the American progressive tradition has been enormously factious, fragmented, and often self defeating;
盡琯美國進(jìn)步的傳統(tǒng)已經(jīng)變得相儅分化、失去連貫性，竝且經(jīng)常不攻自破；

You couldn't get rid of faction by saying to men, it's not good to be factious, you should think of the whole community at all times.
你無法通過告訴人們,派系之壞而去徹底擺脫它,而是應(yīng)將社會(huì)各界因素考慮完全
耶魯公開課 - 古希臘歷史簡介課程節(jié)選

But with a cabinet as factious as Lebanon's, not even this cosy carve-up could keep a lid on controversial programmes.
ECONOMIST: Lebanon