The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disputatiously
Disputatious \Dis`pu*ta"tious\, a. Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
The Christian doctrine of a future life was no
recommendation of the new religion to the wits and
philosophers of that disputations period.
--Buckminster.
-- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n.
Wiktionary
disputatiously
adv. In a disputatious manner.
WordNet
disputatiously
adv. in a disputatious manner [syn: argumentatively]
Usage examples of "disputatiously".
And when they spoke, as opposed to making speeches or arguing disputatiously at dinner, they used few words.