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.
Example sentences for CONTENTIOUS, such as:
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. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
a. involving or likely to cause controversy
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Example Sentence:
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.