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View definitions for dissentious

dissentious

adjective as in disputatious

adjective as in incendiary

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

Yet this is not very surprising, considering how the commentariat expresses time and time again that it is much more concerned with obediently echoing ruling-class rhetoric, policing “civility” and stifling dissentious discourses than it is with the trifles of actual substantive political policy.

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

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

Although Ms. Behbahani rejected political ideologies, her work became increasingly dissentious after the Islamic revolution that installed Ayatollah Khomeini.

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