Adjective : disputatious litigants.    From Dictionary.com. 

Here again I brought my self into a premunire with the disputative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

At least my wife has recalled it on more than one disputative occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: Why The Raiders Will Win] Reference

The Philosopher saith he, teacheth a disputative vertue, but I do an active.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defence of Poesie] Reference

There are five other colonies of these socialistic, disputative birds on this.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

In his writing, he often encased the word "bubble" in disputative quotation marks -- as if to challenge the notion that any market rise could be excessive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The credit bubble, the recession and what the Federal Reserve should have done] Reference

He's not running for governor and, although Jews are known for their disputative zest, the Reb doesn't look like he spends much time with people who disagree with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange] Reference

The philosopher (saith he) teacheth a disputative virtue, but I do an active: his virtue is excellent in the dangerless academy of Plato, but mine showeth forth her honourable face in the battles of Marathon.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

Ramists with the disputative science of Scholasticism, the naturalism of Italian thought in the Renaissance, the practical elements of the magico-alchemical tradi - tion, the revaluation of technical knowledge in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [BACONIANISM] Reference

That it would make them harsh and disputative, like male voters.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

The German mind is more earnest, disputative, and practical than the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Education] Reference

The disputative part, interesting in itself, does not here concern us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore.] Reference

At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories] Reference

I think you're just being disputative if you make circularity of thought a virtue of sorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

To help them out he gave his head a disputative tilt, but Basile's hysterical treble broke in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi] Reference

He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends] Reference

Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was disputative, asked him what was the name of the mufti who was lately strangled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candide] Reference

Ewbert urged, for the sake of conversation, even of a disputative character, that poultry were liable to disease, if they were not looked after; but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Patient Lovers] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

I feel that way about Jonathan Goldstein, whose comic phone-conversation show, "Wiretap" (heard locally on KUOW on Thursday nights), presents such a surfeit of kvetching, bickering, and mannered disputative stuttering that I can hardly bear it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference

The Chinese lanterns swung in the wind each side of the garden-gate; the lane was unlighted, and not even a policeman enlivened its muddy sidewalk; but the disputative little group that left the Moronval Academy cared little for the gloom, the cold, or the dampness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack 1877] Reference

The assembling of these colleges, the drawing up of their instructions after discussion, the choosing of delegates, their journeying to Paris, the distribution of the labour, the preparation, examination, and discussion of the bases of the constitution, the disputative conferences with the delegates of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference

9 The philosopher, ” saith he, “teacheth a disputative virtue, but I do an active.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Defense of Poesy] Reference

"You see the Liberals only just scraped in last election because of the war scandals, and their majority is too small for them to care about any of the rank and file introducing any disputative measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Prince of Sinners] Reference

This short scrap was signed with four asterisks; and when, on the appearance of Mr. Bowles's Letter, I met with it in his pages, not the slightest suspicion ever crossed my mind that I had been myself the writer of it; -- my communications with my reverend friend and neighbour having been (for years, I am proud to say) sufficiently frequent to allow of such a hasty compliment to his disputative powers passing from my memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals] Reference

This short scrap was signed with four asterisks; and when, on the appearance of Mr. Bowles's Letter, I met with it in his pages, not the slightest suspicion ever crossed my mind that I had been myself the writer of it; ” my communications with my reverend friend and neighbour having been (for years, I am proud to say) sufficiently frequent to allow of such a hasty compliment to his disputative powers passing from my memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals]