Crossword-Solution: CONTENTION 10 letters, 88 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
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”

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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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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
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greedy person
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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.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
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.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
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.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
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.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
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.
At the Back of the North Wind George MacDonald 2008

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…
Martin Heidegger
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 …
Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
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.
Don DeLillo
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