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

She once believed the campus could be a place where students could talk about the complexities of the region without contentiousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 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

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

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2022

His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini