quarrelsomely

His blue eyes flashed quarrelsomely at Weiss.

By midnight everybody was fagged out, and sore with laughing; and, as a rule, drunk: some weepingly, some affectionately, some hilariously, some quarrelsomely, some dead and under the table.

Arthur Schnabel's recommendation was to stress the extremes, the soprano and the bass, and leave the middle voices in the background - but this, Brendel quarrelsomely insists, "will get a great deal of clarity but a totally wrong atmosphere."