Sentence examples for contentious usage from inspiring English sources

Where the term 'intentional' is concerned, we also face initially confusing and contentious usage.

The book has two parts: in the first, Pinker identifies the techniques that make prose compelling and the bad habits that can make it soggy, and in the second he focuses on contentious points of usage, of the sort addressed by the American humorist Calvin Trillin's quip: "'Whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler".

Such differences arguably already pervaded Cicero's usage of probabilis and verisimilis, although the matter is contentious.[8] A proposition was regarded as credibilis or opinabilis if it could legitimately be accepted as one's opinion.

Nothing contentious.

This is contentious.

"I'm contentious.

The race was contentious.

The appointment was contentious.

The meeting was contentious.

But this is contentious.

It reportedly got contentious.