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

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

The public contentiousness began after Racine’s office said that he will hold a news conference Thursday “to make a major announcement related to the Washington Commanders.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

Maybe it was inevitable, but there’s already been some contentiousness over the short track speedskating results.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

I said, “It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don’t believe that. It’ll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck