- 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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood
A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph
This leads of itself to the second, which is at once confidential, disputative, and comic, as though two lovers were chasing each other and laughing more than usual about it.
From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
Here again I brought my self into a premunire with the disputative Caledonian.
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
