contentious
31contentious — con ten·tious || ʃəs adj. belligerent, argumentative, controversial …
32contentious — adjective causing or likely to cause disagreement or controversy. ↘Law relating to or involving differences between contending parties. ↘given to provoking argument. Derivatives contentiously adverb contentiousness noun Origin ME: from OFr.… …
33contentious — a. 1. Quarrelsome, cross, petulant, perverse, pugnacious, litigious, wrangling. 2. Disputatious, captious, cavilling …
34contentious — adj 1. quarrelsome, argumentative, disputatious, litigious, controversial; dissentious, factious, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at issue; captious, fractious, bickering, peevish, querulous; cross, testy, snappish, petulant. 2. competitive …
35contentious — con·ten·tious …
36contentious — [kənˈtenʃəs] adj likely to cause arguments Syn: controversial …
37contentious — Pā ume ume, ho opa apa a wale, hakakā wale, pāoni …
38contentious — /kantenshas/ Contested; adversary; litigated between adverse or contending parties. A judicial proceeding not merely ex parte in its character, but comprising attack and defense as between opposing parties, is so called. Character of being… …
39contentious — /kantenshas/ Contested; adversary; litigated between adverse or contending parties. A judicial proceeding not merely ex parte in its character, but comprising attack and defense as between opposing parties, is so called. Character of being… …
40contentious — adj. 1 argumentative, quarrelsome. 2 likely to cause an argument; disputed, controversial. Derivatives: contentiously adv. contentiousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF contentieux f. L contentiosus (as contention) …
