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Disputatious

adjective
1.
Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.  Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious.  "A disputatious lawyer" , "A litigious and acrimonious spirit"






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"Disputatious" Quotes from Famous Books



... only person living who could get full enjoyment of the drama. He carried every scene of it, in a century and a half since the Stamp Act, quite alive in his mind — all the interminable disputes of his disputatious ancestors as far back as the year 1750 — as well as his own insignificance in the Civil War, every step in which had the object of bringing England into an American system. For this they had written ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... it, without need of being generous. She gathered Berthe, as a soberer sister, into the merry communion, and she rode with Clay of Carroll, with Carroll of Clay, with Reub Marmaduke, with Crittenden, with cherubic Old Brothers and Sisters, with Hanks the bugler, and she mocked Meagre Shanks, that disputatious animal, because he tried to monopolize Berthe and would not dispute at all. She asked them questions. She asked Harry Collins if his tribe were the same as that of ces Missouriens-la, and the Kansan ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle



Words linked to "Disputatious" :   argumentative, disputative, dispute, contentious, combative



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