Crossword-Solution: CONTENTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contention | n. | A violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife. |
| Contention | n. | Strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention. |
| Contention | n. | Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal. |
| Contention | n. | A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for. |
We have 88 clues for the answer “CONTENTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a point asserted as part of an argument | 1 answer |
| Stated belief | 1 answer |
| Out of __ (having no chance) | 1 answer |
| Heated disagreement | 1 answer |
| BONA | 10 answers |
| rivalry | 11 answers |
| recrimination | 11 answers |
| finger pointing | 12 answers |
| CAT-and-dog life | 14 answers |
| INFERIORITY complex | 15 answers |
| countercharge | 15 answers |
| disaccord | 17 answers |
| disunity | 19 answers |
| fisticuffs | 21 answers |
| dissidence | 26 answers |
| irruption | 27 answers |
| Allegation | 29 answers |
| Competition | 32 answers |
| Bone to Pick | 34 answers |
| Tussle | 35 answers |
| bout | 35 answers |
| Assertion | 36 answers |
| Contend | 37 answers |
| high words | 38 answers |
| Aggression | 38 answers |
| contraposition | 42 answers |
| retort | 43 answers |
| polemic | 45 answers |
| call in question | 46 answers |
| duel | 47 answers |
| disputation | 50 answers |
| argumentation | 50 answers |
| dissent | 51 answers |
| Hurrah! | 52 answers |
| accusation | 52 answers |
| Misunderstanding | 53 answers |
| combating | 54 answers |
| gang war | 54 answers |
| unbelief | 56 answers |
| Scuffle | 57 answers |
| Antithesis | 58 answers |
| contrast | 59 answers |
| Bickering | 60 answers |
| resistance | 60 answers |
| Indictment | 60 answers |
| strife | 61 answers |
| Opposition | 64 answers |
| contrariety | 64 answers |
| Claim | 64 answers |
| Deliberation | 64 answers |
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Sentences with CONTENTION (5)
LYNCH reiterated even more strongly his contention that, historically, once one goes outside high-end science and the group of those who need access to supercomputers, there is a great dearth of genuinely interesting applications on the network.
Collins is wrong; that contention also has been put forward.) It may be urged that his acquaintance with the technicalities of other crafts and callings, notably of marine and military affairs, was also extraordinary, and yet no one has suspected him of being a sailor or a soldier.
For there is reason to think that if a city were composed entirely of good men, then to avoid office would be as much an object of contention as to obtain office is at present; then we should have plain proof that the true ruler is not meant by nature to regard his own interest, but that of his subjects; and every one who knew this would choose rather to receive a benefit from another than to have the trouble of conferring one.
What wonder that the world looks on in surprise, if not disgust? It cannot help but say, If our contention be true that the Negro is an inferior race, then the odds ought to be on the other side, if any are to be given.
Flash after flash illuminated the fierce chaos, revealing in varied yellow and blue and grey and dusky red the vapourous contention; peal after peal of thunder tore the infinite waste; but it seemed to Diamond that North Wind and he were motionless, all but the hair.
Quotes with CONTENTION (3)
Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the essence of knowledge, an 'ideal subject' has generally been posited. The motive for this, whether explicit or tacit, lies in the requirement that philosophy should have the '*a priori*' as its theme, rather than 'empirical facts' as such. There is some justification for this requirement, though it still needs to be grounded ontologically. Yet is this requirement…
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of …
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1977–2016).