Tending to argument or strife.
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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 He became belligerent when security guards asked him to leave, police said.
2 There was no basis for a belligerent response, State Department spokesman P.J.
3 When Harris spoke, his words were more measured but just as belligerent .
4 The several notes between the United States and the belligerent Governments follow.
5 Yet surely this staunch, belligerent effort should be applauded rather than cursed.
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 The thin, quarrelsome voice of Silas Blackburn echoed in the mouldy court.
2 He walks not in religion in a quarrelsome spirit.-Questionsof King Milinda.
3 This was the last of the quarrelsome cabinet sessions recorded by Jefferson.
4 These groups had always been awkward and quarrelsome and difficult to organize.
5 That could make them quarrelsome about everything, Zelandoni Who Was First said.
6 He very seldom touched alcohol, and the slightest indulgence made him quarrelsome .
7 Some are quarrelsome and combative and will fight on the slightest provocation.
8 Poor people who have their goods in common must necessarily become quarrelsome .
9 He is fierce, quarrelsome , and sullen, living alone in the deepest forests.
10 We were once the quarrelsome , but now we are the polite, lovers.
11 He is, however, very erratic and irritable in disposition and often quarrelsome .
12 No man could ever say that I was quarrelsome in my cups.
13 Being almost without exception Americans, they are not quarrelsome in their cups.
14 Then they would stand dejectedly at the garden wall, bored and quarrelsome .
15 He is fond of strong liquor and when intoxicated is very quarrelsome .
16 Their carping, quarrelsome attitude had taken all the pleasure from knowing them.
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