disputatious

How To Use disputatious In A Sentence

• My Scotland is still a thrawn, aggressive, carnaptious and disputatious wee nation. The Guardian World News
• We've all seen people who are bright, talented, and capable - but also blatantly insecure: disputatious, difficult, and ultimately ineffective.
• He was a bit of a porcupine to the last, still shedding darts; or rather he was to the end a bit of a schoolboy, and must still throw stones, but the essential toleration that underlay his disputatiousness, and the kindness that made of him a tender sicknurse and a generous helper, shone more conspicuously through. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
• Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems.
• To place those two disputatious lawyers side by side, even in after-life, would have been a certain recipe for conflict.
• If I were to venture one observation about the difference in the actors it's that while being blessedly less disputatious than in London they also seem conditioned not to use their intuition.
• By the _Gazette_ report we conclude the Festival must have ended as many such meetings do; and never better expressed than by Lord Byron in his facete moments -- "then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then" -- but we have done. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 532, February 4, 1832
• While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• And yet beneath the mellow exterior lies a fiercely independent, and at times disputatious, thinker.
• The standard Western account of that episode claims for Rome a balance of approach lacking in the more disputatious Greek theologians, who were still too besotted by the neo-Platonic speculations common in the East.