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Synonyms:
- feisty, hit-and-miss, unstructured, pugnacious, discordant, contrarian, disputatious, unplanned, hostile, contentious, litigious, argumentative, controversial, agonistic, warlike, eristic, all over the place, combative, haphazard, bellicose, quarrelsome, contrary, uncoordinated, undisciplined, disorganized, chaotic, attack, aggressive, belligerent, gladiatorial, brawly, assaultive, confrontational, chippy, polemic, militant, volatile, truculent, polemical, cantankerous, conflict, hasty
Examples:
- - It was to him that we owed our scrappy lunch; and I could not conceive why Eustace desired to see him, unless it was to make mock with him of our behaviour. - "The Celestial Omnibus and other Stories", E. M. Forster
- - A scrappy, hurried, unsatisfactory letter, the letter of a busy man: but one that Sally could not ignore. - "The Adventures of Sally", P. G. Wodehouse
- - All other papers, without exception, contained various accounts of the British defence at the point nearest London, but they were mostly of the scrappy and sensational order, based more on report than upon actual fact. - "The Invasion", William Le Queux
Antonyms:
- peaceful, obliging, amenable, tranquil, submissive, serene, ingratiating, good-tempered, mild, genial, complaisant, cooperative, relaxed, unwarlike, sociable, agreeable, nonbelligerent, kindly, amiable, gentle, acquiescent, gracious, good-natured, calm, kindhearted, pacific, complying, pleasant, obedient, quiet, affable, benign, easygoing, amicable, tractable, peaceable, benevolent, docile, nonaggressive, friendly, cordial, compliant, conciliatory, unaggressive
