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View definitions for dissentious

dissentious

adjective as in disputatious

adjective as in incendiary

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Example Sentences

“What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues?” she snarls at the plebeians as she takes the stage for the first time.

His Western-allied regime has redefined dissentious journalists and activists as “terrorists.”

From Salon

This American primary season has been too volatile, dissentious and just plain eccentric for any over-confident forecast prior to the event.

The rabble stir his patrician scorn: “What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues, that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?”

From Time

Martius charges at them and then lets loose the contempt that will aid in his downfall: “What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues, that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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