All 18 Uses of
dispute
in
Bleak House
- Among them, and prominent in some dispute, was the father of the little child.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- "But how do you and your neighbour get on about the disputed right of way?" said Mr. Jarndyce.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)
- To hear him laugh and see the broad good nature of his face then, one might have supposed that he had not a care in the world, or a dispute, or a dislike, but that his whole existence was a summer joke.†
Chpt 7-9 (definition 2)
- No one disputed the will; no one disputed anything but whether part of that three hundred pounds had been already paid or not.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- No one disputed the will; no one disputed anything but whether part of that three hundred pounds had been already paid or not.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 1)
- inquired whether I was my father's son, about which there was no dispute at all with any mortal creature.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2)
- On one side of it was the terrible piece of ground in dispute, where Mr. Boythorn maintained a sentry in a smock-frock day and night, whose duty was supposed to be, in cases of aggression, immediately to ring a large bell hung up there for the purpose, to unchain a great bull-dog established in a kennel as his ally, and generally to deal destruction on the enemy.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2)
- Entering the park, almost immediately by the disputed ground, we pursued a pleasant footpath winding among the verdant turf and the beautiful trees until it brought us to the church-porch.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- I am sorry that any local disputes of Sir Leicester's—they are not of his seeking, however, I believe—should render it a matter of some absurd difficulty to show you any attention here."†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 2) *
- All this time the two gentlemen before mentioned pop in and out of every house and assist at the philosophical disputations—go everywhere and listen to everybody—and yet are always diving into the Sol's parlour and writing with the ravenous little pens on the tissue-paper.†
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)
- Under one of the wills in dispute, I should take much more than he.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 2)
- I do not dispute your hypothetical case.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 2)
- Much mighty speech-making there has been, both in and out of Parliament, concerning Tom, and much wrathful disputation how Tom shall be got right.†
Chpt 46-48 (definition 1)
- Mr. Vholes, with a noiseless cough—or rather gasp—into one of his black gloves, inclined his head as if he did not wholly dispute even that.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)
- C. takes certain interests under certain wills disputed in the suit.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 1) *
- He seemed about to dispute this designation of himself when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- I was not surprised to observe Mr. Kenge inclined to dispute what he said before he had said much, for I knew that no two people ever did agree about anything in Jarndyce and Jarndyce.†
Chpt 61-63 (definition 2)
- Similarly, Mr. Boythorn continues to post tremendous placards on the disputed thoroughfare and (with his bird upon his head) to hold forth vehemently against Sir Leicester in the sanctuary of his own home; similarly, also, he defies him as of old in the little church by testifying a bland unconsciousness of his existence.†
Chpt 66-67 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (dispute as in: She disputes his claim.) challenge, argue about, or fight over
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(2) (dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict