contentious
مثير للنزاع
definition
adjective
a contentious issue
causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial.
translation of 'contentious'
adjective
كثير الخصام,
مشاكس,
مثير للنزاع
example
I don't like breaches and I am not a particularly 'contentious' person at all, but if my back is against the wall I can certainly muster all my inner forces.
The Continuing Record extends to eleven volumes and includes serious, 'contentious' allegations back and forth between the parties and other deponents.
It looks as if the only 'contentious' affidavit is this one you are about to tell me about, Mr Douglas.
I feel somewhat guilty for dismissing what is certainly a very 'contentious' debate in a few lines yesterday.
E-mail is a notoriously bad way to resolve serious disputes over 'contentious' issues, since it easily leads to harsh tones and misunderstandings.
Sex and reproductive control have to become less 'contentious' issues.
Such strategies can help cut through 'contentious' debates by providing plans of action that all can agree will play out no matter whose view of the future proves correct.
Frank, how do Americans view the very 'contentious' debates over teaching evolution and intelligent design?
She'd been expecting a sweet, unfortunate boy that she might perhaps feel some compassion for, but at the moment all she should feel for this 'contentious' lad was anger.
We must find an accord, even if it involves the imposition of peace keeping force between the 'contentious' parties.
It was also a reform which concentrated on a single, highly 'contentious' aspect of transplantation law and ignored long-standing proposals for reform and European initiatives.
Thus, the structural trigger for detailed public debate on 'contentious' matters would be gone.
Analogous battles over school finance issues will likely become just as 'contentious' and prolonged.
The book fails to portray the bawdy and 'contentious' woman who wanted always to be on center stage.
I therefore agree that the client care letter or any 'contentious' business agreement should be attached to the bill of costs.
Nowhere is the debate more lively and 'contentious' than in psychiatric genetics, but in truth there is a dearth of substantiated, empirical data.
Strange was it to see two so vastly different men as these: Lin was a simple, small town boy, while Jamie was a brilliant, yet from time to time arrogant and 'contentious' man with a youthful side to him.
Of course controversies and 'contentious' issues have emerged.
He was, and remains, a 'contentious' figure, accused by some of scheming and power-mongering.
A small, dark, 'contentious' people known as the Picts held sway over the islands until the eighth and ninth centuries, when Viking invaders arrived.
But the moves for exemption are likely to prove highly 'contentious' , coming as they do in the run-up to elections to the Scottish parliament.
My Lord, you will be aware of the 'contentious' nature of this litigation between the parties.
The development of regulations and guidelines for the emerging technologies has led to a 'contentious' public debate about genetic engineering.
Cadorna would become one of the most 'contentious' figures in the history of the war.
The transgene contamination is certain to fuel the 'contentious' debate over the use of genetically modified crops.
A still more 'contentious' area surrounds the question whether the defendants, or either of them, should be permitted to make purchases.
Her request was made during a 'contentious' debate about raising admissions standards at Nevada's public institutions, which she opposes.
At about the same time, the Pentagon's exultation of a 'contentious' personality reflected an increasingly codified belief in speed.
A strongly 'contentious' figure, he garnered many enemies as well as advocates.
The century-old organization used to be at the mercy of the often 'contentious' parties in Italy's coalition governments.
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