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Meanings of disputative in English

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

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        Usage of disputative in English
        1
        A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
        At a Winter's Fire
        2
        At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.
        Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
        3
        Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their disputative, unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.
        The street philosopher
        4
        "Me too," said Jerik, wanting to get into the game, now that High Priest Harshket seemed more disputative than angry.
        Analog sff, december 2009
        Disputative through the time