- a variation of disputatious.
disputative
Example Sentences
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The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.
From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Rex Ellingwood Beach
Side by side there grew up an Alexandrian church, philosophic, disputative, ambitious, the very centre of Christian learning, and an Egyptian church, ascetic, contemplative, mystical.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
His lively style and his avoidance of anything subtle or disputative, though he never conceals his political sympathies, united with his ample resources of Parliamentary and political knowledge, fit him admirably for this modest undertaking.
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller.
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
