Disputatiously

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a.
     Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert;
     characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or
     temper.
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           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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disputatiously
       adv : in a disputatious manner [syn: {argumentatively}]