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disputatious

[dis-pyoo-tey-shuhs] / ˌdɪs pjʊˈteɪ ʃəs /


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Mr. Burnham might solve Labour’s political problem for a time to the extent he’s more popular than Mr. Starmer, especially among Labour’s disputatious base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Historical scholarship on the draft riots is intensive and disputatious; my only concluding point is that they seem to contain all the most painful and contradictory lessons of our nation’s history in compressed form.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025

Private, internal anger at his failings was a good thing, he claimed, a "disputatious culture" better than a "quietly acquiescent" one.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

The Jewish community is, of course, not monolithic; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, described it as “a disputatious people.”

From New York Times ● May 12, 2022

The closest I ever got was one day when he was escorted down from the mess hall after an argument with the disputatious Officer Colon, who was always stirring things up.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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