Both Uses of
contentious
in
Snow Falling on Cedars
- But I must remind you that Mr. Miyamoto here is on trial for murder in the first degree, that such is the focus of this court's concern, and that any contentiousness about legal ownership of land will have to be addressed in a civil court, madam.†
Chpt 9 *
- And you've got at least fifty gill-netters out in the fog last night—any one of them as contentious as the next when he figures some other guy is cutting into his fish—and then you've got Ole Jurgensen.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(contentious) causing or likely to cause disagreement; or argumentative