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

A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

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

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

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

From Atlantic Classics by Various

And about a century before Aristotle reached manhood, they had invented this peculiarly difficult and trying species of disputative pastime, in which we find the genesis of Aristotle's logical treatises.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William