disputatiousness

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Second, the decline of Nehru’s Congress Party coincided with the rise of dozens of communal and caste-based political parties that reflected India’s diversity and its disputatiousness.

From Slate • Sep. 30, 2014

The meager soil and parsimonious culture, the reasonable discourse of the people, their wholesome disputatiousness, acted as a kind of purge or tonic after all this Southern exuberance.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

They both consider this disputatiousness the inevitable result of their respective relations.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

I do not think he would have objected to the disputatiousness of Wilde, although he was well over twenty-five before he left the noisy field of argument, if, indeed, he left it at all.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur

This was no time for disputatiousness or the display of warm feeling between himself and the man who, if haply anything had gone wrong with the Captain, might become the head of them all.

From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.