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Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits.

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Usage examples (36)
  • You may decide to take a calculated risk, but you should be wary of so doing in today's increasingly litigious climate.
  • But the management saw it as potentially a health and safety issue in litigious Britain.
  • The tenants were not going to be frustrated by that -- being Irishmen and litigious, which is one and the same thing.
  • Whatever the laws may be, they seem to give perfect satisfaction to the inhabitants, who cannot be called a litigious race.
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