disputative

Example Sentences

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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

He passed through Scotland in a disputative vein, which could not have made him a popular traveller. 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.

This leads of itself to the second, which is at once confidential, disputative, and comic, as though two lovers were chasing each other and laughing more than usual about it.

From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

Therefore he was exactly in that mental condition which would make him a good pupil, because he would be a disputative one.

From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues

The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte