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contentious

English

  1. 🔊 involving or likely to cause controversy
    “a central and contentious element of the book”
  2. 🔊 inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
    “a style described as abrasive and contentious”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 contencioso contentious

Similar words

combative disputatious disputative litigious aggravating aggravative aggressive annoying antagonistic argumental argumentative battling bellicose belligerent bloodthirsty bloody bloody-minded cat-and-dog cat-and-doggish chauvinist chauvinistic combative controversial dialectic