Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
Striving to overcome in argument.
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Examples for "contentious "
Examples for "contentious "
1 It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
2 However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly contentious exercise.
3 Yet in this year's contentious Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
4 The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
5 However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly - contentious term in his stinging retort.
1 Nintendo is normally litigious , but this response felt extreme, even for them.
2 Their office is to endeavour to prevent litigious suits, and conciliate differences.
3 You would become as litigious and as unintelligible as our friend Stradling.'
4 For a litigious , quarrelsome, fighting animal, man is very fond of peace.
5 One is the litigious cupidity which causes the logjam of compensation court cases.
1 But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
2 But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious .
3 Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind.
4 Even in repose there was about him something talkative and disputatious .
5 The disputatious person for this reason never makes a good friend.
1 A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
2 At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative , indignant, loquacious.
3 Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their disputative , unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.
4 "Me too," said Jerik, wanting to get into the game, now that High Priest Harshket seemed more disputative than angry.
Having or showing a ready disposition to fight.
Tending to argument or strife.
1 Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative .
2 At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
3 His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
4 That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative ; he was neither.
5 His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
6 Liu has been among the most combative critics of China's one-Party rule.
7 Even the combative US trade representative Charlene Barshefsky was unable to attend.
8 Arsenal are still not quite as combative as had been suggested beforehand.
9 The guards said Hill was combative , exhibiting surprising strength that required force.
10 Like his new colleagues Rich was intense and sometimes emotional and combative .
11 She was not combative , and she would be alone in the garden.
12 After a long three seconds, Hardwick continued in a less combative tone.
13 The president singled out Apple's iPhone by name in his combative speech.
14 CLASHES Trump has had a combative relationship with his Democratic congressional counterparts.
15 He foresaw the struggle and with his combative nature prepared for it.
16 Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation.
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