How To Use Disputatious In A Sentence
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A more accurate portrayal than Carley's would be that of an arrogant and disputatious Soviet side insisting on extreme demands and refusing to reach an agreement based on conditions that Western leaders could responsibly have met.
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This, of course, is a vast improvement on those forlorn days when a few disputatious souls insisted that only soldiers had died in the war.
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This disputatious dozen, unexpectedly propelled to Europe on the back of a tin-pot protest group grown suddenly large, claim they will rubbish Europe and everything it stands for.
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Similarly it is not possible to say whether the English are shown to be a nation vindicated by the god of battles or a band of disputatious mercenaries who simply get lucky.
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Chirac has been lofted to a pinnacle of popularity, with virtually no public dissent, even from France's normally disputatious intellectuals.
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Today, they contend, those qualities have been eclipsed “by the hypertrophied commercial individualism of the age of extremes” — as high-altitude adventure has become high-tech, it has become compromised, disputatious, even nihilistic.
Cover to Cover
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She wasn't going to have a man trying to rule her, or upsetting her delicate balancing act with the disputatious factions of her court and council; nor would she have a son grow up to become a focus of opposition.
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It is one of the many places where America's policy elite is working with its customary disputatious energy to shape national strategy.
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The various choral groups that continually comment upon and sometimes mix in with the action are now more in line with the disputatious aesthetic factions of the original, and all the better for it.
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a disputatious lawyer
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We are a disputatious and ingenious species and have a pretty good track record of solving problems sensibly.
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If they persist in carrying on like this, these disputatious divorced dads will lose the sympathy vote.
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The monarch was the referee of disputes, and one of the qualities that distinguished effective rulers from the rest was an ability to act tactfully when confronted by disputatious subjects.
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But perhaps because revolutionaries are by nature contentious and intellectuals disputatious, it was not long before the 1903 congress was riven with disagreement, which developed into dissension and animosity.
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The disputatious ceremony concludes, fittingly enough, with a traffic jam involving two processions trying to go in opposite directions.
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My Scotland is still a thrawn, aggressive, carnaptious and disputatious wee nation.
The Guardian World News
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The political left has always been disputatious.
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Note for the disputatious: I make no comment on the 90-day proposal itself.
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Coalitions are supposed to be disputatious, single-party governments much less so.
Times, Sunday Times
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I imagine the Professor as a particularly disputatious pet-shop owner.
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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.
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And yet beneath the mellow exterior lies a fiercely independent, and at times disputatious, thinker.
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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
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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
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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.
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To place those two disputatious lawyers side by side, even in after-life, would have been a certain recipe for conflict.
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Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems.
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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
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We've all seen people who are bright, talented, and capable - but also blatantly insecure: disputatious, difficult, and ultimately ineffective.