disputative

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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

Cooks rebelled at the exactitude of her household and her disputative reign of the kitchen.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

The disputative, dialectical tone which assists in the work was the ordinary mode of instruction in the mediæval universities, and finds a parallel in the method of thought observable in other ages.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

That it would make them harsh and disputative, like male voters.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King