shrewish (adj.)

• aggressive
• bellicose
• belligerent
• catty
• combative
• contumacious
• defiant
• disputatious
• divisive
• eristic
• factious
• fractious
• fretful
• incorrigible
• indocile
• indomitable
• intractable
• irascible
• irrepressible
• irritable
• litigious
• nagging
• obstreperous
• partisan
• peevish
• pettish
• petulant
• polemic
• pugnacious
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• recalcitrant
• refractory
• resentful
• resistant
• resisting
• restive
• uncontrollable
• ungovernable
• unmalleable
• unmanageable
• unruly
• unsubmissive
• vixenish
• wild