- 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
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 Adam Storey Farrar
That it would make them harsh and disputative, like male voters.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We have seen in the Introduction how such questions were forced upon Aristotle by the disputative habits of his time.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
