contentiousness
Example Sentences
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Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2025
Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work it out.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023
Now the contentiousness that drove that decision has become clear in legal filings that detail how those works came to be at the center of a bitter dispute within the Early family.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2023
That contributes to this escalatory dynamic of contentiousness in our discourse.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2020
His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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