disputatious in English

adjective
1
fond of or causing heated arguments.
a congenial hangout for disputatious academics
adjective

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1. They go in for querulous and disputatious argument.

2. How right you are, very clever, very ... disputatious.

3. There was a busy , disputatious about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility.

4. But, with some few exceptions, the main results had been disputatious wrangling.

5. What gives the June deadline urgency is Taiwanese politics. The ECFA must be approved by the disputatious parliament.

6. Captious (also: casuistic, contentious, disputatious, fastidious, fussy, meticulous, nit-picking, pedantic, pettifogging, small-minded)

7. Argumentative definition, fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually Argumentative group

8. Backtalk (third-person singular simple present Backtalks, present participle Backtalking, simple past and past participle Backtalked) To respond to in an aggressively disputatious, often sarcastic or insolent manner

9. As it is difficult to determine the subjective guilty of this crime, there are many disputatious of it in theory and practice.

10. Mr. Frankfurt spent much of his childhood in Brooklyn, and still sees himself as a disputatious Brooklynite - one who still speaks of the Dodgers as "having betrayed us.

11. This paper expounds the ten great relations of the safety in production of coal mine, and puts forward some methods of recognizing and treating the problems from disputatious angle.

12. I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.

13. Argumentative: 1 adj given to or characterized by argument “an Argumentative discourse” “ Argumentative to the point of being cantankerous” “an intelligent but Argumentative child” Synonyms: quarrelsome given to quarreling combative , contentious , disputatious , disputative , litigious inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or