contentiousness
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But even the judge last week seemed exasperated by the contentiousness of a feud that shows no sign of ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Pizza always amuses me with its contentiousness among certain types of home cooks — the flour, the oven, the hydration, so many absolute rights and wrongs.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
She once believed the campus could be a place where students could talk about the complexities of the region without contentiousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
Sometimes, like this week, we draw together with all our contentiousness and all our ego, and we sit down and try to work it out.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
I said, “It looks then as though the natural contentiousness of people had died. But I don’t believe that. It’ll just take another channel. Can you think, sir, of what that channel might be?”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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