单词 | contentiousness |
释义 | contentiousness (once / 98495 pages) n WORD FAMILY contentious: contentiously, contentiousness, noncontentious+/contend: contended, contender, contending, contends, contention/contender: contenders/contention: contentions, contentious USAGE EXAMPLESHis face had lately adopted an expression of playful contentiousness. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) The contentiousness of this presidential campaign is spilling into some workplaces. Seattle Times(Oct 12, 2016) That said, it could be that his seething contentiousness matches the electorate’s disgust with the status quo. Wall Street Journal(Sep 27, 2016) n an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious Syn|Hypo|Hyper quarrelsomeness litigiousness a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits disagreeableness an ill-tempered and offensive disposition |
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