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Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
contentious
combative
litigious
disputatious
argumentative
Синонимы
Examples for "
contentious
"
contentious
combative
litigious
disputatious
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
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.
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.
become disputative
disputative galley
more disputative