Contentious

1. a. Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
2. a. Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
3. a. Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.