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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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        Examples for "contentious"
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        It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
        Radio NZ
        2
        However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly contentious exercise.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Yet in this year's contentious Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
        Reuters
        4
        The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
        BBC
        5
        However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly-contentious term in his stinging retort.
        The South African
        1
        Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
        Radio NZ
        2
        At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
        The Guardian
        3
        His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
        Reuters
        4
        That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
        Jarka Ruus
        5
        His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
        Wired
        1
        Nintendo is normally litigious, but this response felt extreme, even for them.
        Wired
        2
        Their office is to endeavour to prevent litigious suits, and conciliate differences.
        Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and ...
        3
        You would become as litigious and as unintelligible as our friend Stradling.'
        The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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        For a litigious, quarrelsome, fighting animal, man is very fond of peace.
        The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 / Devoted To...
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        One is the litigious cupidity which causes the logjam of compensation court cases.
        The Irish Times
        1
        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
        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
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        Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their disputative, unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.
        The street philosopher
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        "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