From the outset of the story, the contentious nature of the couple's conversation indicates resentment and unease.

The measure, House Bill 1022, underwent extensive revisions due to its contentious nature.

That was probably connected with his critical, contentious and sarcastic nature, which brought him many conflicts, particularly in the field of mathematics.

Other reasons are also advanced, but they are of such a contentious nature I do not think it well to go into them here.

The Commons can't get rid of all its business and we do business of a less contentious nature.

Mayer says that the contentious nature of his parents' marriage led him to "disappear and create my own world I could believe in".

It was also because of the contentious nature of divorce cases.

And even if he had been, his negative attitude, his contentious nature, made him unfit.

Within a few years of the controversy that surrounded Milton, the contentious nature of the issue had settled.

The Convention postponed making a final decision on the international slave trade until late in the deliberations because of the contentious nature of the issue.