Factious

a.	1.	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. Factious for the house of Lancaster. - Shak.
	2.	Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; - said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels. Headlong zeal or factious fury. - Burke.

Adj.

1.

factious - dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) Synonyms: dissentious, divisive

aggressive, alienated, argumentative, at loggerheads, at odds, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, breakaway, combative, conflicting, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, discordant, disputatious, divisive, eristic, estranged, extreme, extremistic, factional, fighting, insurgent, insurrectionary, irascible, irritable, litigious, mutineering, mutinous, partisan, polarizing, polemic, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rebel, rebellious, refractory, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious, shrewish, subversive, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, warring, wrangling

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