disputative

• “He's not running for governor and, although Jews are known for their disputative zest, the Reb doesn't look like he spends much time with people who disagree with him.”

  The Huffington Post: Alfred Gingold: Bei Mir Bist Du Strange

• “In his writing, he often encased the word "bubble" in disputative quotation marks -- as if to challenge the notion that any market rise could be excessive.”

  The Washington Post: The credit bubble, the recession and what the Federal Reserve should have done

• “Pangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was disputative, asked him what was the name of the mufti who was lately strangled.”

  Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine

• “At least my wife has recalled it on more than one disputative occasion.”

  Newsweek: Starr Gazing: Why The Raiders Will Win

• “Here again I brought my self into a premunire with the disputative”

  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

• “The conversation ere long recommenced in a more general form, though still in a somewhat disputative tone.”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “There are five other colonies of these socialistic, disputative birds on this”

  My Tropic Isle

• “The Philosopher saith he, teacheth a disputative vertue, but I do an active.”

  Defence of Poesie

• “Ramists with the disputative science of Scholasticism, the naturalism of Italian thought in the Renaissance, the practical elements of the magico-alchemical tradi - tion, the revaluation of technical knowledge in the”

  BACONIANISM

• “The philosopher (saith he) teacheth a disputative virtue, but I do an active: his virtue is excellent in the dangerless academy of Plato, but mine showeth forth her honourable face in the battles of Marathon,”

  English literary criticism

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