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

His prefaces have been too disputative, his plays too epigrammatic, for the cultivation of prose rhythms.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

There are five other colonies of these socialistic, disputative birds on this Island; but they happen to be in out-of-the-way spots, where continuous detailed observation of their habits and customs would be impossible.

From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

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 Minto, William