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Definition of disputatious in English: disputatiousadjective dɪspjuːˈteɪʃəsdɪspjʊˈteɪʃəsˌdɪspjəˈteɪʃəs Fond of having heated arguments. (人)好争辩的 it's a congenial hang-out for disputatious academics 这是个喜争好辩的学究们最惬意的逗留之所。 Example sentencesExamples - To place those two disputatious lawyers side by side, even in after-life, would have been a certain recipe for conflict.
- If they persist in carrying on like this, these disputatious divorced dads will lose the sympathy vote.
- Similarly it is not possible to say whether the English are shown to be a nation vindicated by the god of battles or a band of disputatious mercenaries who simply get lucky.
- A more accurate portrayal than Carley's would be that of an arrogant and disputatious Soviet side insisting on extreme demands and refusing to reach an agreement based on conditions that Western leaders could responsibly have met.
- The various choral groups that continually comment upon and sometimes mix in with the action are now more in line with the disputatious aesthetic factions of the original, and all the better for it.
- Chirac has been lofted to a pinnacle of popularity, with virtually no public dissent, even from France's normally disputatious intellectuals.
- This, of course, is a vast improvement on those forlorn days when a few disputatious souls insisted that only soldiers had died in the war.
- We are a disputatious and ingenious species and have a pretty good track record of solving problems sensibly.
- She wasn't going to have a man trying to rule her, or upsetting her delicate balancing act with the disputatious factions of her court and council; nor would she have a son grow up to become a focus of opposition.
- Note for the disputatious: I make no comment on the 90-day proposal itself.
- We've all seen people who are bright, talented, and capable - but also blatantly insecure: disputatious, difficult, and ultimately ineffective.
- It is one of the many places where America's policy elite is working with its customary disputatious energy to shape national strategy.
- The standard Western account of that episode claims for Rome a balance of approach lacking in the more disputatious Greek theologians, who were still too besotted by the neo-Platonic speculations common in the East.
- If I were to venture one observation about the difference in the actors it's that while being blessedly less disputatious than in London they also seem conditioned not to use their intuition.
- But perhaps because revolutionaries are by nature contentious and intellectuals disputatious, it was not long before the 1903 congress was riven with disagreement, which developed into dissension and animosity.
- Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems.
- The political left has always been disputatious.
- The monarch was the referee of disputes, and one of the qualities that distinguished effective rulers from the rest was an ability to act tactfully when confronted by disputatious subjects.
- This disputatious dozen, unexpectedly propelled to Europe on the back of a tin-pot protest group grown suddenly large, claim they will rubbish Europe and everything it stands for.
- I imagine the Professor as a particularly disputatious pet-shop owner.
Synonyms argumentative, disputative, contentious, confrontational, captious, factious, cavilling, pugnacious, combative, ready for a fight, defiant, hostile, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, militant, warring, fighting, battling
Derivativesadverb He disagreed with them when necessary, not disputatiously or contentiously, but with a desire to persuade. Example sentencesExamples - When I share something of the way that I think, and you basically (arrogantly and disputatiously) call me a liar, the conversation is over.
- These were, of course, peak years for Abstract Expressionism, disputatiously called ‘action painting.’
- Previously our laws and precedents were carried in lawyers’ heads, and passed on verbatim and (we guess) disputatiously.
- Each account differs wildly and quite disputatiously - and quite uniquely each of the principals insists that they were the one who conducted the murder.
noun Most of the political activity occurring outside that gilded realm must be cast as a periphery of delusion, extremism and industrial disputatiousness. Example sentencesExamples - He mentioned, too, the increasing disputatiousness of New York's board of directors.
- Remarkably the literary product of such disputatiousness eventually became Scripture, that is, books with normative quality for the community.
- A penchant for disputatiousness has led to numerous quarrels with fellow radicals, including Foreman.
- Divine decrees are fulfilled with sullenness, bafflement or credulous compliance; the crew's disputatiousness adds to the reader's pleasure.
RhymesAthanasius, audacious, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of disputatious in US English: disputatiousadjectiveˌdispyəˈtāSHəsˌdɪspjəˈteɪʃəs Fond of or causing heated arguments. (人)好争辩的 a congenial hangout for disputatious academics 这是个喜争好辩的学究们最惬意的逗留之所。 disputatious council meetings 争论激烈的议会会议。 Example sentencesExamples - I imagine the Professor as a particularly disputatious pet-shop owner.
- To place those two disputatious lawyers side by side, even in after-life, would have been a certain recipe for conflict.
- But perhaps because revolutionaries are by nature contentious and intellectuals disputatious, it was not long before the 1903 congress was riven with disagreement, which developed into dissension and animosity.
- The monarch was the referee of disputes, and one of the qualities that distinguished effective rulers from the rest was an ability to act tactfully when confronted by disputatious subjects.
- If they persist in carrying on like this, these disputatious divorced dads will lose the sympathy vote.
- A more accurate portrayal than Carley's would be that of an arrogant and disputatious Soviet side insisting on extreme demands and refusing to reach an agreement based on conditions that Western leaders could responsibly have met.
- We've all seen people who are bright, talented, and capable - but also blatantly insecure: disputatious, difficult, and ultimately ineffective.
- This disputatious dozen, unexpectedly propelled to Europe on the back of a tin-pot protest group grown suddenly large, claim they will rubbish Europe and everything it stands for.
- The various choral groups that continually comment upon and sometimes mix in with the action are now more in line with the disputatious aesthetic factions of the original, and all the better for it.
- If I were to venture one observation about the difference in the actors it's that while being blessedly less disputatious than in London they also seem conditioned not to use their intuition.
- Chirac has been lofted to a pinnacle of popularity, with virtually no public dissent, even from France's normally disputatious intellectuals.
- Similarly it is not possible to say whether the English are shown to be a nation vindicated by the god of battles or a band of disputatious mercenaries who simply get lucky.
- She wasn't going to have a man trying to rule her, or upsetting her delicate balancing act with the disputatious factions of her court and council; nor would she have a son grow up to become a focus of opposition.
- The political left has always been disputatious.
- This, of course, is a vast improvement on those forlorn days when a few disputatious souls insisted that only soldiers had died in the war.
- Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems.
- The standard Western account of that episode claims for Rome a balance of approach lacking in the more disputatious Greek theologians, who were still too besotted by the neo-Platonic speculations common in the East.
- It is one of the many places where America's policy elite is working with its customary disputatious energy to shape national strategy.
- We are a disputatious and ingenious species and have a pretty good track record of solving problems sensibly.
- Note for the disputatious: I make no comment on the 90-day proposal itself.
Synonyms argumentative, disputative, contentious, confrontational, captious, factious, cavilling, pugnacious, combative, ready for a fight, defiant, hostile, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, militant, warring, fighting, battling |