contentiouslyadv.
/kənˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli/, U.S. /kənˈtɛn(t)ʃəsli/ In a contentious manner or spirit; with contention; quarrelsomely.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [adverb] > quarrelsomely
contentiously1548
brabblingly1564
quarrellously1580
litigiously1608
fightingly1632
quarrelsomely1648
pugnaciously1836
combatively1863
1548 King Edward VI in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. App. M. 43 Whosoever shal..irreverently and contentiously demaund of any man, any of the questions before rehersed.
1564 Briefe Exam. sig. ****iij We are affrayde to stryue contentiouslye.
1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. I. (1654) 69 Everyone..contentiously would argue thereof.
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