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Definition of the day : « contentious »
- adj quarrelsome
- Suppose we call it the contentious or ambitious—would the term be suitable?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- There is nothing to indicate that he was contentious by nature.
- Extract from : « Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark » by Jens Christian Aaberg
- Of the contentious scribes He asked: "What question ye with them?"
- Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
- Let them beware of the first approach of a contentious spirit.
- Extract from : « The Young Maiden » by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
- Then, he was trying not to be too contentious, but was irritated into retorting.
- Extract from : « The Trail of the Hawk » by Sinclair Lewis
- For our purposes, however, what he says about contentious learning is the most important.
- Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey
- All motive force in him is essentially brutish, covetous, or contentious.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters, Volume V (of 5) » by John Ruskin
- When it suits their contentious mood they become strict literalists.
- Extract from : « The Bible and Life » by Edwin Holt Hughes
- I venture to think it one of my most contentious studies from actual nature.
- Extract from : « Hide and Seek » by Wilkie Collins
- The bishop is charged to be no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles » by Alfred Plummer