Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a contentious manner; quarrelsomely; perversely; with wrangling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
contentious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He followed his London 2012 success by helping Rio de Janeiro win the 2016 Olympics and, most contentiously, masterminded Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid victory.
Mike Lee: 'Football and athletics don't work as a combination'
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Lewis was one of the first to popularize this ‘lexical turn’ in applied linguistics, and he did so energetically, if, at times, contentiously.
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Italy had a total of five goals contentiously ruled out over the course of the tournament.
Giovanni Trapattoni keen to stay on and gain revenge at 2014 World Cup
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"Adele", who asked us to keep her family's name and location private had created a blog stream, "Journey to Therese" that was perhaps the most contentiously posted in the weeks leading up to the official statements on Euteneuer.
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More contentiously, would millionaires have to pay a higher effective tax rate than the average middle class tax rate or the highest middle class tax rate?
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He adds, somewhat contentiously, that Argentina and Britain "both have a good claim to the Islands".
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Perhaps most contentiously for UK audiences, apparently pubescent girls are occasionally deployed in overtly erotic poses.
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When a contentiously protracted education decision is no longer strictly an education issue, it blows up to the center stage with strong public debate and protest.
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Most contentiously, a Delhi court ordered CERT-In to block access to Zone-H.org, an Italian security giant that acts as a repository of hacked websites—that is, it collects screen grabs of sites that are infiltrated, which later proves valuable for studying the cyber crime in question.
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He took on communists, free marketers, supporters of the Iraq war and, most contentiously, Israel.
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