What's the difference between backtalk and disputatious?
Backtalk
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As a child I thought nothing of seeing family members spanked harshly at gatherings, nor of friend’s dads countering displays of unapologetic backtalk with deadly-unfunny statements like, “Well, if you want, Jimmy, we can go upstairs and see if the belt agrees with you.” And nearly everyone’s dads told us the same thing, “You think your grandpa’s a sweet old man now, but he belted me harder than I’ve ever hit you.” This was an heirloom every generation gave to its next.
Disputatious
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) He plunged into every controversy for 50 years, to deflate, to promote, to punish and reward before the jury of his disputatious friends and competitors.
(2) We have a vibrant, exciting, passionate, disputatious, sometimes infuriating press.
(3) Quite what constitutes comedy as opposed to tragedy is a vexatious question, but if this novel is different in tone from anything I've written before, that is because the qualities that might roughly be said to have defined my voice in the past – disputatiousness and irony, a love of the sardonic, the ambivalent and the contradictory – are precisely what are missing from the world of J .
(4) More than 250 economists have signed a letter endorsing the idea that leaving would be a threat to the economy – a rare display of unity in a notoriously disputatious profession.
(5) Each of these phases and eras produces its own distorted knowledge of the other, each its own reductive images, its own disputatious polemics.
(6) Yet, strangely enough, as the SWP's "democratic opposition" has pointed out, the Bolshevik party that seized power in October 1917 was a disputatious creature, large, unwieldy, democratic and faction-ridden.
(7) There could be nothing more dissimilar than the disciplined if corruption-prone party machinery of the CDC and the open, disputatious assemblies and rotating leadership of the CUP.