Synonym: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious. Similar words: indisputable, indisputably, reputation, deputation, computation, dispute, disputed, undisputed. Meaning: [‚dɪspjə'teɪʃəs /-jʊ'-] adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.
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1. How right you are, very clever, very ... disputatious.
2. They go in for querulous and disputatious argument.
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. As it is difficult to determine the subjective guilty of this crime, there are many disputatious of it in theory and practice.
6. 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.
7. What gives the June deadline urgency is Taiwanese politics. The ECFA must be approved by the disputatious parliament.
8. 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.
9. 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.
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