Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
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Examples for "contentious"
Examples for "contentious"
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It passed contentious legislation earlier this year - the Metadata Retention Law.
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However, any objective view of history makes this an endlessly contentious exercise.
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Yet in this year's contentious Republican debate season, that's exactly what's happened.
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The question of alternatives to SF6 has been contentious over recent years.
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However, Malema's right-hand-man also used a highly-contentious term in his stinging retort.
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Photo: Supplied The near-daily media briefings on Covid-19 often started out combative.
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At a combative press conference, Blatter said he was unafraid of arrest.
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His government could also be more combative with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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That wasn't to say he was slow-witted or combative; he was neither.
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His charmingly combative relationship also lightens the mood in really murdery situations.
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Nintendo is normally litigious, but this response felt extreme, even for them.
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Their office is to endeavour to prevent litigious suits, and conciliate differences.
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You would become as litigious and as unintelligible as our friend Stradling.'
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For a litigious, quarrelsome, fighting animal, man is very fond of peace.
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One is the litigious cupidity which causes the logjam of compensation court cases.
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A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
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At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.
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Then he had remembered Mrs James, and their disputative, unexpectedly intimate conversation in her father's office.
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"Me too," said Jerik, wanting to get into the game, now that High Priest Harshket seemed more disputative than angry.
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But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur.
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But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious.
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Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind.
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Even in repose there was about him something talkative and disputatious.
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The disputatious person for this reason never makes a good friend.
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Sandy and Ikey they were, and they were having a disputatious argument together.
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I asked, properly tamed and no longer disposed to be disputatious.
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From their disputatious and metaphysical aptitude, they worked their upward way-
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The music poured out of the machine, round, disputatious and melancholy.
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Liberty there was, but it was a disputatious, an uncertain, an ill-secured liberty.
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You ought to have been born in Abelard's time,-you'vesuch a disputatious spirit.
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Are Englishmen becoming less like Romans, and more like disputatious Greeks?
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The President spoke everywhere in an aggressive and disputatious tone.
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The whole matter is complicated enough, and there is occupation for the most disputatious.
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It felt like a sometimes amusing, disputatious French dinner party.
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The arrogant or disputatious passions could not possibly find place in a scene like this.
