Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a disputatious manner.
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- adverb In a
disputatious manner.
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- adverb in a disputatious manner
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Examples
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Free from his lovely, yet disputatiously snobby wife, now back in London, he's having a good time in America, spreading his wings.
William Bradley: Mad Men: "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Free from his lovely, yet disputatiously snobby wife, now back in London, he's having a good time in America, spreading his wings.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Free from his lovely, yet disputatiously snobby wife, now back in London, he's having a good time in America, spreading his wings.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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Free from his lovely, yet disputatiously snobby wife, now back in London, he's having a good time in America, spreading his wings.
William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?) William Bradley 2010
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You watch the waiter bring another round of drinks and you perceive that the evening is well under way and that the peak of the twenty-four hours is being disputatiously approached.
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While the Law argued, learnedly, disputatiously, with the handing up and the handing down of inane decisions, Crime scored; and Who or What tallied?
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All he knew was that if the Lord didn't take a hand pretty soon he would be -- Well, it was useless to fix his mind on any particular form of destruction, so many and so varied were the kinds being disputatiously considered by the people in the street.
Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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"I don't see why," rejoined Susan Bates, disputatiously.
With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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To finally ascertain how fast they could move, the boat, whose dimensions have been disputatiously reconstructed from ancient literary sources, will sail around Manhattan in two years 'time.
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To finally ascertain how fast they could move, the boat, whose dimensions have been disputatiously reconstructed from ancient literary sources, will sail around Manhattan in two years 'time.
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