Contentiously

Italy had a total of five goals contentiously ruled out over the course of the tournament. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Perhaps most contentiously for UK audiences, apparently pubescent girls are occasionally deployed in overtly erotic poses. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Lewis was one of the first to popularize this ‘lexical turn’ in applied linguistics, and he did so energetically, if, at times, contentiously. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More contentiously, would millionaires have to pay a higher effective tax rate than the average middle class tax rate or the highest middle class tax rate? ❋ Andrew Fieldhouse (2012)

Most contentiously, a Delhi court ordered CERT-In to block access to Zone-H.org, an Italian security giant that acts as a repository of hacked websites—that is, it collects screen grabs of sites that are infiltrated, which later proves valuable for studying the cyber crime in question. ❋ Rahul Bhatia (2011)

He adds, somewhat contentiously, that Argentina and Britain "both have a good claim to the Islands". ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Adele", who asked us to keep her family's name and location private had created a blog stream, "Journey to Therese" that was perhaps the most contentiously posted in the weeks leading up to the official statements on Euteneuer. ❋ Roger Bianchini (2011)

When a contentiously protracted education decision is no longer strictly an education issue, it blows up to the center stage with strong public debate and protest. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He followed his London 2012 success by helping Rio de Janeiro win the 2016 Olympics and, most contentiously, masterminded Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid victory. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Rep. Taylor was considerably more blunt, contentiously asking the Coast Guard admiral: "I'm just curious, given the amount of corruption around the world ... what guarantee do you have that they actually performed those safety inspections before the Coast Guard signed off on them?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

The arrival of Byzantine scholars encouraged a lineage of Western scholars35 to digest and reincorporate an Eastern heritage into a canon that only recently, and contentiously, had absorbed Aristotle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The striking thing is that if you look beneath the surface of the victorious Republican Party, it is about as contentiously divided as the Democrats. ❋ Lynn Parramore (2010)

And, less contentiously, what time do you get dressed? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He took on communists, free marketers, supporters of the Iraq war and, most contentiously, Israel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Me and] [my ex] [broke up] because she was to contentious ❋ Bababooie (2008)

Contentious; A word used in [the board] game [cranium] <[spell it] backwards. One try> ❋ Strabs76 (2018)

Person: [I want] my [sim] to look more custom contenty to make them look [better]! ❋ MEoW_mEoW_iMa_CaT (2019)

[Hey you] [contentious] bitch, [wake the fuck up] ❋ Wuuuhu (2022)