disputatious

Example Sentences

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Private, internal anger at his failings was a good thing, he claimed, a "disputatious culture" better than a "quietly acquiescent" one.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2023

“It’s a messy and disputatious business,” said Jan A. Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

Rather, he contended, in our “relatively permissive, often disputatious, society,” public schools must permit robust, rollicking debate because that democratic value is “the basis of our national strength.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2021

If a house divided against itself cannot stand, as Abraham Lincoln pointed out so long ago, surely a spaceship with a disputatious and self-destructive crew is not likely to survive, no less thrive.

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019

The closest I ever got was one day when he was escorted down from the mess hall after an argument with the disputatious Officer Colon, who was always stirring things up.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover