contention
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contention |
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Discordia, Eris, altercation, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, argumentative, bellicose,
belligerence, belligerent, bicker, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, bucking, captious, carping, casuistry, caviling, challenge, clash,
clashing, collision, combative, conflict, confrontation, confrontment, contentious, contestation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety,
contrary, contrast, contravention,
contraversion, controversial, controversy, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense,
denial, despitefulness, difference,
disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disputation, disputatious, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, donnybrook,
donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity,
faultfinding, feud, fiery, fight, fliting, flyting,
fracas, friction, froward, fuss, hassle, hasty, hate, hatred, head wind, hostility, hotheaded, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, impetuous, impugnation, impugnment, incompatibility, incompatibleness, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jangle, jar, litigation, litigious, logomachy, malevolence, malice, malignity, militant, mischief, negation, noncooperation, open
conflict, open quarrel, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, paper war, passage of arms, peppery, perverse, polar opposition, polarity, polarization,
polemic, polemical, polemics,
posing against, pugnacious, quarrel,
quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, repugnance, resistance, rhubarb, rub, rumpus,
scrappy, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, spat, spite, spitefulness, squabble, standing against, strained relations, strife, tension, tiff, traversal, truculent, tussle, undercurrent,
unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, vendetta, verbal engagement, war of
words, warlike, words, wrangle,
wrangling
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bone of contention |
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apple of discord, bone to pick, casus belli, catechism, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crow to pick, crow to pluck, debating point, demand, feeler, grounds for war, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, issue, leader, leading question, moot point, point
at issue, point in question, problem, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, rub, sore
point, tender spot, ticklish issue, topic, trial balloon, vexed question
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Main entries similar to: contention
altercation, antagonism, antipathy, antithesis, apologetics,
apologia, apology, argument, assertion, belligerence, bickering, brawl, broil, casuistry, challenge, clash, collision, combat, competition, conflict, confrontation, contest, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety,
contrast, controversy, counteraction, crosscurrent, crossing, debate, defense, deity,
denial, difference, disabuse, disaffinity, disagreement,
discord, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, donnybrook, embroilment, encounter, enmity, faction, feud, fight, fighting, fracas, fray,
friction, fuss, god, goddess, hassle, hate, hatred, head
wind, hostility, hubbub, hurrah, imbroglio, incompatibility,
jangle, jar, lawlessness, litigation, logomachy, malevolence, malice, mischief, negation, opposing, opposition, polarity, polarization, polemic, position, quarrel, race, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, repugnance, resistance, rhubarb, rivalry, rub, rumpus, scramble, set to,
snarl, spat, spite, squabble, story, strife, struggle, tension, thesis, tiff, tussle, undercurrent, unpleasantness, variance, vendetta, war, warfare, wrangle,
wrangling
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