disputative

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The U. S., under the impression that there was still time and room to make up its mind, was arguing along as it always had: in straggling, disputative, disorderly democracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

That it would make them harsh and disputative, like male voters.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

At length the engineer was goaded to anger, he became disputative, indignant, loquacious.

From Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Side by side there grew up an Alexandrian church, philosophic, disputative, ambitious, the very centre of Christian learning, and an Egyptian church, ascetic, contemplative, mystical.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

Cooks rebelled at the exactitude of her household and her disputative reign of the kitchen.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie