CONTENTIOUS in a Sentence

Learn CONTENTIOUS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. The contentious gentleman in the bar ridiculed anything anyone said.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTENTIOUS
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contentious
 a.  quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
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1  The contentious gentleman in the bar ridiculed anything anyone said.
2  What is contentious is the relationship between racialist and racist modes of thought, which might be called the conceptual politics of race.