Contentiously

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  • ad. In a contentious manner
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In a contentious manner; quarrelsomely; perversely; with wrangling.
    • Word Usage
    "Lewis was one of the first to popularize this ‘lexical turn’ in applied linguistics, and he did so energetically, if, at times, contentiously."
     
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