- a variation of disputatious.
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
A disputative galley-puller could have triumphed over him morally; a child physically.
From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
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 George T. (George Titus) Ferris
That it would make them harsh and disputative, like male voters.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 Rodrigues Ottolengui
