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[syn: disputatiously, argumentatively]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a.
Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert;
characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or
temper.
[1913 Webster]
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no
recommendation of the new religion to the wits and
philosophers of that disputations period.
--Buckminster.
-- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disputatiously
adv 1: in a disputatious manner [syn: disputatiously,
argumentatively]