Factious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FACTIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• inclined to form factions
• relating or inclined to dissension
• of or producing factions
• 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.
• Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.
• dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• promoting dissension

Words related to FACTIOUS

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Words that contain FACTIOUS

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How to use FACTIOUS in a sentence

• At home, Elizabeth had to contend with a jealous Parliament, a factious nobility, an empty purse, and a divided people.
• They were factious, and were not disposed to submit to legitimate authority.
• The success of it would require not merely a factious majority in the legislature, but the concurrence of the courts of justice and of the body of the people.
• Though measures decisive and energetic will ever meet with censure from the unprincipled, the disaffected, and the factious, yet virtue must eternally triumph.
• It is not fanciful to say that the civic life of a free and factious republic is represented by the heavy walls and narrow windows of Florentine dwelling-places.
• Consequently he encountered little or no factious opposition.
• Roderigo de Escobedo had courage, but he was factious, would take sides against his shadow if none other were there.
• And to do this I had many good men, it is true, but also a host that was not good, but was factious, turbulent, sensual and idle.
• This leader had made some figure in the conduct of their wars and factious.
• Had one tenth part of them beset his outward voyage, his factious crew would have risen in arms against the enterprise, and he never would have discovered the new world.
• Counsel him, To blot the opinion out of factious numbers, Only to have his ordinary train Waiting upon him.
• I concur in opinion with you, that in the present factious division of your State, an angel from heaven could do no good.
• So slow is the progress of truth in every science, even when not opposed by factious or superstitious prejudices.
• Orford appears to have been rough, turbulent, factious, and shallow.
• The parliament during factious times was nothing but the organ of present power.
• While this cloud was gathering at home, Edward carried his views abroad, and endeavored to secure himself against his factious nobility, by entering into foreign alliances.
• The events of the war, he frankly acknowledged, had not corresponded to his expectation, but he denied that there was any truth in the representations of a factious opposition.
• The factious spirit which prevailed among them was discovered at the very opening of the States-general, which took place on the 5th of May, 1789, at Versailles.
• Anstey offered to it an opposition foolish and factious.
• No one could suspect them or him of giving a factious opposition to Government.
• The governor said that York was one of the most factious towns in the kingdom.
• A factious intemperance then characterized debates of the Commons, while the House of Lords stood in the front of the Revolution, and secured the permanency of its best issues.
• Their conduct ever since the death of Richelieu had been factious and corrupt.
• The factious course pursued by the English Opposition was much less excusable than the line of the Anglo-Irish leaders.
• During the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the overgrown powers and factious spirit of the nobility had been restrained.
• The Federalists had their way, but failed to win a partisan advantage from the fact, through their factious opposition to the military measures of the administration.
• The well-known intention of the legislature in this respect would, I hoped and believed, reconcile the factious and produce tranquillity.

Similar words containing FACTIOU without suffix s

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