Adjective : disputatious litigants. From Dictionary.com.
I commend you for the use of the word disputatious as you confronted the defense secretary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2003] Reference
I believe one great source of our concord is that neither he nor I are disputatious, which is not the case with any of them. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
"disputatious" and was causing corrosive damage to South Africa's national image and international credibility. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But Mr. Borah had a reputation for being disputatious. From Wordnik.com. [Times Change, but Circus Mood Endures] Reference
Finally the lay figures waxed so disputatious that Professor. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
He had a rather mad look in his eye and a disputatious manner. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
This was fully in accordance with his disputatious inclination. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
The disputatious person for this reason never makes a good friend. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
QUESTION: Well, I'm not trying to be disputatious, but the mission. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2002] Reference
But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Each has consequences, especially among outspoken, disputatious democracies. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Schlesinger: Why The Democracy League Won't Work] Reference
She had learned and disputatious friends in Rome who would expect her to visit them. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
He smiled and greeted the next in line, a disputatious family of four from Burns III. From Wordnik.com. [Codgerspace]
The whole matter is complicated enough, and there is occupation for the most disputatious. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
QUESTION: Disinclined though I am to be disputatious, the American Heritage Dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2003] Reference
I went to a summer camp where every disputatious relationship was resolved in this fashion. From Wordnik.com. ['Battle Of The Bad Girls' Isn't A Bad Idea] Reference
I was not insulting or disputatious, but I was sincerely firm in giving it to him straight. From Wordnik.com. [Prayers To Broken Stones]
THEODORUS: Nay, Socrates, he is not one of the disputatious sort — he is too good for that. From Wordnik.com. [The Sophist] Reference
Those who are skilled in the Way do not dispute about it; the disputatious are not skilled in it. From Wordnik.com. [Tao Te Ching] Reference
'Then you won't put back the … the, er … disputatious and pugnacious extraordinary embodiment?'. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
"They are, they are, " the university chaplain agreed, -but they're also a very disputatious people. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Prey]
Therefore men did hasten to set down some principles about which the variety of their disputatious might turn. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
His theology was grim, solemn, and angular, and he was as combative as one of Cromwell's disputatious troopers. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
As Ronald Reagan said in China, in front of students at Fudan University, we are "a great disputatious nation.". From Wordnik.com. ['Shrink to Win' Isn't Much of a Strategy] Reference
There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
Underlying his words is that the ideal woman is one who is subservient; the bad woman is one who is disputatious. From Wordnik.com. [Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition.] Reference
It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Rowe: Why Anne Rice Has Never Been More of a Christian] Reference
It's simply impossible for me to "belong" to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. From Wordnik.com. [John Shore: Anne Rice: 'I Quit Being a Christian!' Yaaaaawn.] Reference
Fleeming and I were teacher and taught as to the principles, disputatious rivals in the practice, of dramatic writing. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
Now, scientists, you know, disputatious that, but at the same time, at least there is something between you and the shark. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2008] Reference
And someone who took on the issue of the rather disputatious meanings is our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2003] Reference
Oxford dons are constitutionally disputatious; their purpose is to have opinions and to propel them to the top of the pile. From Wordnik.com. [The man who saved Oxford University] Reference
For one, there was the ongoing contract disputatious with Dale Earnhardt Incorporated, the race team started by his late father. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2008] Reference
Eleven percent say yes, 89 percent however disputatious as senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre taught us to say tonight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2003] Reference
I had sate down sulky and discontented, and disposed to be silent — the wine rendered me loquacious, disputatious, and quarrelsome. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
There is no way the state can enter such a disputatious area, where it has no chance whatsoever of making any prohibitive edict stick. From Wordnik.com. [The Continuing Controversy on Abortion] Reference
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