contentious
I
adjective
aggressive, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, captious, caviling, combative, competitive, contrary, contumacious, cross, discordant, disputatious, dissentious, factious, inimical, irascible, litigious, militant, noncooperating, nonpacific, obstinate, perverse, polemical, pugnacious, pugnax, quarrelsome, recalcitrant, schismatic, stubborn, uncooperative, unfriendly, unpacific, unpeaceful, wrangling
II
index
argumentative, competitive (antagonistic), debatable, dissenting, forensic, fractious, hostile, litigious, moot, negative, offensive (taking the initiative), petulant, polemic, pugnacious, querulous, remonstrative
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006