Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits:
— A style described as abrasive and contentious.

synonyms: combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious.

Roget 713: discordant; disagreeing etc. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient etc. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious etc. 720.    quarrelsome, unpacific^†; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.    at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.    torn, disunited.    ... show more

Roget 720: contending etc. v.; together by the ears, at loggerheads.    at war.    at issue.    competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose, unpeaceful^†; warlike etc. 722; quarrelsome etc. 901; pugnacious; pugilistic, gladiatorial; palestric^†, palestrical^†.    ... show more

Roget 722: contending, contentious etc. 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.    unpacific^†, unpeaceful^†; belligerent, combative, armigerous^†, bellicose, martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.    chivalrous; strategical, internecine.    ... show more

Roget 901: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable etc. 825; thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret.    hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy^†, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]. querulous, captious, moodish^†; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious etc. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious^†; restiff etc. (perverse) 901.1^†; churlish etc. (discourteous) 895.    cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari=atre^†.    in a bad temper; sulky etc. 901.1; angry etc. 900.    resentful, resentive^†; vindictive etc. 919.    ... show more

Polish: pieniacki

Involving or likely to cause controversy.