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Meanings of disputatious in English

Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.

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Usage of disputatious in English
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But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
The Life of St. Paul
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But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2
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Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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Even in repose there was about him something talkative and disputatious.
The Freelands
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The disputatious person for this reason never makes a good friend.
Friendship
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Sandy and Ikey they were, and they were having a disputatious argument together.
A Minstrel in France
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I asked, properly tamed and no longer disposed to be disputatious.
Guy Garrick
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From their disputatious and metaphysical aptitude, they worked their upward way-
Practical Essays
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The music poured out of the machine, round, disputatious and melancholy.
The Young Lions
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Liberty there was, but it was a disputatious, an uncertain, an ill-secured liberty.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
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You ought to have been born in Abelard's time,-you'vesuch a disputatious spirit.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 / A Magaz...
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Are Englishmen becoming less like Romans, and more like disputatious Greeks?
Studies in Literature
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The President spoke everywhere in an aggressive and disputatious tone.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 / From Lincoln to Garfield, w...
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The whole matter is complicated enough, and there is occupation for the most disputatious.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory
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It felt like a sometimes amusing, disputatious French dinner party.
The Irish Times
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The arrogant or disputatious passions could not possibly find place in a scene like this.
Jane Talbot
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