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We started with the most contentious item on the agenda.contentious = likely to cause disagreement
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It's a contentious and complicated issue that I think should be discussed at a separate meeting.
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"Ain't got no mother," was the answer, "and their paw's right contentious." (source)contentious = argumentative
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It is the beauty of small areas of order—a large yard, a group of trees, three similar dormitories, a circle of old houses—living together in contentious harmony. (source)contentious = causing or likely to cause disagreement
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PARRIS: Giles Corey, sir, and a more contentious— (source)contentious = argumentative
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Now, eight years after her contentious funeral ... he changed his mind. (source)contentious = combative (involving argument or heated differences)
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"'It is better,'" I recited piously, "'to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house with a contentious woman." (source)contentious = argumentative or likely to cause disagreement
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His face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness.† (source)contentiousness = tendency to cause disagreementstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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"Now, Ben, he was a Roman—let me tell," said Letty, using her elbow contentiously.† (source)contentiously = in a manner that causes or is likely to cause disagreement OR in an argumentative manner
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It's a noncontentious sort of meat.† (source)noncontentious = not likely to cause argumentstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncontentious means not and reverses the meaning of contentious. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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"Samuel," she said, "you're the most contentious man this world has ever seen." (source)contentious = argumentative
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The purpose of the assignment is to instill a degree of contentiousness on the part of the one driving the car.† (source)contentiousness = tendency to cause disagreement
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A round of haggling ensued, at the end of which Rasheed said to Aziza contentiously, as if it were she who'd haggled him, "Give it back.† (source)contentiously = in a manner that causes or is likely to cause disagreement OR in an argumentative manner
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But next on the docket was a subject that proved more contentious.† (source)
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It was as though the sirens heralded the presence of some cont rolling mechanism—a thing we would do well not to provoke with our contentiousness and spilled food.† (source)contentiousness = tendency to cause disagreement
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"How different?" he inquired, solemnly and contentiously, taking up a glass and drinking from it.† (source)contentiously = in a manner that causes or is likely to cause disagreement OR in an argumentative manner
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