disputatious: /dis-pyuh-TAY-shus/

1 : inclined to dispute
b: marked by disputation
2 : provoking debate : controversial

how to use in casual conversation:

"remember when news was news and not a series of disputatious dingbats spouting opinion and calling it fact?"

not to be confused with:

dispensation

how it makes me feel:

i'm kind of on the fence about it. it's a good WOTD and in fact i can remember a time in my life where i was a lot more disputatious in general but as things go i have lost that part of myself. kind of like a car you couldn't afford rims for so like most normal people you just used the normal wheels it came with until you lost that hubcap going around that corner when you were probably too tipsy to be driving but you did it anyways and in the morning you looked at the wheel and went 'oh yeah, that was stupid' but you have a car that's missing a hubcap - and you feel like somebody with one gold tooth but not someone who has a 'grill'. now after all this time of looking at your gold tooth you think to yourself 'what do i have to do to get my tooth back?' but you can't. it's gone maaaan. like forever. and now all you feel is the permanence of knowing that the things you lose in life (especially teeth or parts of teeth) are in most cases irretrievable and all you can hope for is some facsimile of a tooth like substance that can be built up to look like a tooth. or you can just say f the whole thing and start ripping them out and save up for a good set of dentures.