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What does contentiously mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a contentious manner
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Most contentiously, the applicant must be a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.
They might throw out a statement that disrupts the conversation, or respond contentiously to a question.
And, contentiously, isn't this not that dissimilar to the intellectual tactics of Anti-Semites?
She hadn't heard him speaking so contentiously since their first few meetings on the ship and, to be quite honest, it disgusted her.
It will hear oral evidence from witnesses in sessions which contentiously are being held behind closed doors beginning in York next month.
Canada is a federal system whose powers are formally and sometimes contentiously divided between the national and provincial governments.

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