Synonym: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious. Similar words: a bone of contention, conscientious, content, intention, licentious, pay attention to, contend, constitutional convention. Meaning: [-ʃəs] 
adj. 1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits 2. involving or likely to cause controversy.
adj. 1. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits 2. involving or likely to cause controversy. 
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61. As a role model, she is a highly contentious one.
62. How significant are the changes brought about by the introduction of this concept is more contentious.
63. There were several contentious rights of way matters still outstanding, some of which were linked to the bypass.
64. One of the earliest theories has also been one of the most contentious.
65. There is no long-term advantage in avoiding contentious and divisive issues.
66. In 1634 the Reverend Thomas Hooker, finding Massachusetts too crowded and contentious, began to petition for the right to leave.
67. It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas.
68. If granted, the taxing officer assesses the costs on the same basis as for costs in contentious matters.
69. Costs in contentious cases are more complicated because a successful party may normally recover some of the costs from the losing party.
70. Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.
71. The most contentious planning issue was perhaps the question of retailing.
72. Standards are one of the most contentious issues in education.
73. Politically the situation was contentious and Rhee had not shown the correct touch in tackling domestic problems.
74. It is not the only contentious matter to have been exercising the lady's mind.
75. A public inquiry is usually employed, however, only if the appeal involves a very large or highly contentious development.
76. The most contentious debate had centred on the issue of religious education.
77. Hardly ever, except perhaps when focusing on especially contentious and critical issues.
78. Jessica was yet another contentious subject my sister and I best avoid, I remember suddenly.
79. There are proposals for less contentious but equally important Bills.
80. The subject is contentious enough in all conscience - the independent film.
81. Eikhl was contentious, shouted,(http://sentencedict.com/contentious.html) and snorted laughter through a single nostril.
82. That was even true of de Gaulle's other main preoccupation in these years - his ambitious and contentious foreign policy.
83. The contentious rules will once again be opened to public debate, Thompson said.
84. One particularly contentious area in the field of health and safety is the valuation of human life itself.
85. Complexity research has attracted a lot of attention, but the field remains contentious.
86. Axworthy pointed to other contentious issues between the two neighbors that require resolution.
87. While the sale will go through the contentious issue will re-emerge in the run-up to an expected spring election.
88. Smuts had gone on to much more contentious matters.
89. His imprisonment had been a contentious issue in Israel.
90. A hard, contentious look came into his eyes.
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