OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 16960

contentious

/kənˈtɛn.ʃəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
contencioso • controvertido • polémico
Marked by heated arguments or controversy.
Ukraine, however, will complain long and hard about a contentious second-half incident when Marko Devic's shot clearly crossed the line before it was scrambled away by John Terry,…
belicoso • camorrista • conflictivo • pendenciero • provocador
Given to struggling with others out of jealousy or discord.
She was not a contentious person as the Other had been; she did not argue and contradict everything I said.