fractious, quarrelsome, rebarbative, fissiparous, opinionated, unpolitical, tetchy, erudite, recriminatory, clubbable, truculent, querulous, rivalrous, vituperative, irenic, pedantic, antipathetic, bumptious, liberalist, whiggish, censorious, cliquish, disdainful, antagonistic, unedifying, obstreperous, unintellectual, leisured, rancorous, delphic, ungifted, unrepressed, uncivil, pugnacious, acrimonious, confrontational, excitable, anglophilic, prolix, intemperate, overdetermined, unbeholden, loquacious, discordant, combative, adversarial, solipsistic, polarized, amiable, establishmentarian, collegial, polemical, snobbish, waspish, boisterous, equanimous, leftish, incommunicative, anticlerical, unpoetic, factious, fissured, internecine, disagreeable, sententious, egoistical, garrulous, deracinated, litigious, cacophonous, pretentious, partisan, scornful, verbose, unassimilable, freebooting, febrile, decorous, idiosyncratic, pompous, sophistic, discursive, contentious, unacademic, argumentative, ineloquent, bellicose, politer, abrasive, unforthcoming, unmusical, dyspeptic, proprietorial, rambunctious, acerbic, uncouth, captious, equable, voluble, convivial, vitriolic, contemptuous, sociable, easygoing, jovial, testy, touchy, bookish, calmer, distrustful, indolent, sedate, unemotional, carefree, frivolous, gregarious, hypercritical, irreligious

argumentatively, disputatiously

disputative