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arguing, argument, combatively, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, hornet's nest, hornets' nest, scrappily, sea lawyer, tilt

aggressive, argumentative, battleful, bellicose, combative, controversial, disputatious, disputative, litigious