contentious

Ground the possession of which imports great advantage to either side, is contentious ground.

AN Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it.

Add thereto contentious suits, which ought to be spewed out, as the surfeit of courts.

"Well!" said Stryver, slapping the desk with his contentious hand, opening his eyes wider, and taking a long breath, "if I understand you, Mr.

Once more Adeimantus returns with the allusion to his brother Glaucon whom he compares to the contentious State; in the next book he is again superseded, and Glaucon continues to the end.

"No, no; you'll see the letter--nothing contentious, I assure you."

The pair were speeding away into the distant gray by the time that the contentious revellers became aware of what had happened.

Women who are never bitter and resentful are often the most querulous; and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye--a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.

His countenance had, perhaps for years, become so set in its contentious expression that it did not soften, even now when he was quiet.

They had to carry it on in shouts because of the moaning and roaring of the gyroscopic motor-cars that traversed the High Street, and in its nature it was contentious and private.

"We provide a bipartisan solution to the often contentious discipline issue by providing protections for children with disabilities while simplifying the rules that school districts use in discipline cases," Gregg said.

The points of view expressed here are done so in a slightly contentious way.