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belligerent
Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
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  1. Of, pertaining to, or engaged in warfare.
  2. At war; designating or of a state recognized under international law as being engaged in a war
  3. Inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
hostile
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
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  1. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will:
  2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy:
  3. Being in opposition; opposed:
argumentative
Apt to argue; contentious
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  1. Apt to argue; contentious
  2. Of or containing argument; controversial
  3. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them. Stating facts and suggesting that particular inferences and conclusions can be drawn from them.
argumentative
Apt to argue; contentious
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  1. Apt to argue; contentious
  2. Of or containing argument; controversial
  3. Of or characterized by argument:
combative
Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
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  1. Fond of fighting or struggling; ready or eager to fight; pugnacious
  2. Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.
  3. Eager or disposed to fight.
contentious
Of or marked by contention
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  1. Of or marked by contention
  2. Provoking or likely to provoke controversy
  3. Involving or causing contention; controversial:
disputatious
Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
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  1. Of or relating to something that is in question as to its value or intent.
  2. Inclined to argue or debate; provoking debate.
  3. Inclined to dispute; fond of arguing; contentious
eristic
Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
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  1. Of something or someone provoking strife, controversy or discord.
  2. Of or provoking controversy or given to sophistical argument and specious reasoning
  3. Given to or characterized by disputatious, often specious argument.
polemic
Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
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  1. Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.
  2. Of or involving dispute; controversial
  3. Argumentative; disputatious
quarrelsome
Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
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  1. Argumentative; belligerent; contentious; given to quarreling.
  2. Given to quarreling; contentious.
  3. Marked by quarreling.
scrappy
Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
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  1. Made of scraps; consisting of odds and ends
  2. (Informal) Fond of fighting, arguing, etc.; aggressive
  3. Quarrelsome; contentious.
Find another word for litigious. In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for litigious, like: belligerent, hostile, argumentative, quarrelsome, argumentative, combative, contentious, disputatious, eristic, polemic and polemical.

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  • Justice.By the Judicature ActGerichtsverfassungsgesetz of 1879, the so-called regular litigious jurisdiction of the courts of law was rendered uniform throughout the empire, and the courts are now everywhere alike in character and composition; and with the exception of the Reichsgericht (supreme court of the empire), immediately subject to the government of the state in which they exercise jurisdiction, and not to the imperial government.

  • The Mussulmans of Backergunje are among the worst of their creed, steeped in ignorance and prejudice, easily excited to violence and murder, very litigious and grossly immoral.

  • External policy had the same litigious character.

  • In addition to litigious business the courts also deal with non-litigious matters, such as the registration of titles to land, guardianship and the drawing up and custody of testamentary dispositions, all which are almost entirely within the province of the Amtsgerichie.

  • They are as litigious as a lawsuit - without any summing up; the end comes in a moment with a text of Scripture or an utterance by one of the great Fathers.

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