Crossword-Solution: CONTENTIOUSLY 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Sippens,” said Cowperwood, blandly, “you were once in the gas manufacturing and distributing business here in Chicago, weren’t you?” “I think I know as much about the manufacture of gas as any one,” replied Sippens, almost contentiously.

Meanwhile the intruder, leering contentiously at them all, was exclaiming in very audible tones: “Take your hands off.

But if we drive out the good friars, a man will have to count mouths before he dares look at his wife too lovingly." "Well," said the scribe with a dry smile, "I've a notion the good friars have always taken more than they gave; and if it were not for the gaping mouths under the cowl even a poor man might have victuals enough for his own." The first speaker turned on him contentiously.

Then began Panurge to speak, saying to the Englishman, Sir, are you come hither to dispute contentiously in those propositions you have set down, or, otherwise, but to learn and know the truth? To which answered Thaumast, Sir, no other thing brought me hither but the great desire I had to learn and to know that of which I have doubted all my life long, and have neither found book nor man able to content me in the resolution of those doubts which I have proposed.

And, as for disputing contentiously, I will not do it, for it is too base a thing, and therefore leave it to those sottish sophisters who in their disputes do not search for the truth, but for contradiction only and debate.