Crossword-Solution: CONTENTIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contentious | a. | Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome. |
| Contentious | a. | Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention. |
| Contentious | a. | Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. |
We have 207 clues for the answer “CONTENTIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Causing controversy | 1 answer |
| Causing disagreement or controversy | 1 answer |
| INVOLVING contention | 1 answer |
| Looking for an argument. | 1 answer |
| involving or likely to cause controversy | 1 answer |
| Ornery, in a way | 5 answers |
| disputatious | 10 answers |
| scrappy | 16 answers |
| disputing | 34 answers |
| eruptible | 42 answers |
| duelling | 44 answers |
| Volcanic | 48 answers |
| snarly | 48 answers |
| Rancorous | 53 answers |
| antithetic | 55 answers |
| goading | 55 answers |
| litigious | 55 answers |
| growling | 55 answers |
| Shame-less | 56 answers |
| Peppery | 56 answers |
| militaristic | 56 answers |
| military | 56 answers |
| Brassy. | 57 answers |
| Picky ___ | 57 answers |
| Averse | 58 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
| cavilling | 61 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| Temperamental | 61 answers |
| churning | 62 answers |
| outraged | 62 answers |
| troublemaking | 62 answers |
| unkindly | 62 answers |
| Ranting | 63 answers |
| carping | 63 answers |
| exasperated | 63 answers |
| warring | 64 answers |
| Querulous | 65 answers |
| bloodthirsty | 65 answers |
| in opposition | 65 answers |
| infuriated | 65 answers |
| unaffiliated | 65 answers |
| Curt | 65 answers |
| concerned | 65 answers |
| in a rut | 65 answers |
| snuffy | 65 answers |
| Fiery | 66 answers |
| Enraged | 66 answers |
| Stand-offish | 66 answers |
| asocial | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CONTENTIOUS (5)
Once more Adeimantus returns with the allusion to his brother Glaucon whom he compares to the contentious State; in the next book he is again superseded, and Glaucon continues to the end.
And it would seem also, on a hasty view, that the attainment of as much as possible was the one goal of man’s contentious life.
Women who are never bitter and resentful are often the most querulous; and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye—a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
The young men of the house stood round and supported me; and the whole discussion was tolerantly conducted, and surprised a man brought up among the infinitesimal and contentious differences of Scotland.
What but jealousy could give a man that sore contentious wish for the detail of what would make him suffer? Well enough he knew indeed that he should never have it from the only person who to-day could give it to him.
Quotes with CONTENTIOUS (3)
A contentious, belligerent Christian isn’t living according to the Spirit but according to the flesh. When we stubbornly insist on our own way and are insensitive to others, peace is not our goal.
... he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.
Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–2014).