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disputatious
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synonyms: fractious, irascible, splenetic, refractory, importunate ???
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Definition:Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute;Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“You have erred, perhaps,” he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—
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"I am tired," said Miss Havisham. "I want diversion, and I have done with men and women. Play."
I think it will be conceded by my most disputatious reader, that she could hardly have directed an unfortunate boy to do anything in the wide world more difficult to be done under the circumstances.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“there’s been a caucus and decisions have been made. Did you take minutes, Brother Chairman? Have you recorded your wise disputations?”
Ralph Ellison. The Invisible Man (1952)
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