What's the difference between disputatious and peaceable?
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.
Peaceable
Definition:
(a.) Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think the fact that we have communities which are so diverse and that you can have people squashed together like sardines in the London tube from different backgrounds, different cultures, different skin colours, different traditions, different perspectives and still do so peaceably and generously to each other I think is a great thing.
(2) Video from the island at the weekend shows police clashing with demonstrators, including women and children, and it shows one man attacking a refugee as he peaceably filmed the demonstration.
(3) A few years after the millennium, the world was at its most peaceable in recorded history.
(4) She suggests that their unique and generally peaceable social organisation may be one factor in their longevity.
(5) Perhaps the cold war was certain to end peaceably, rather than in a nuclear holocaust; perhaps the dissolution of the Soviet Union was equally certain.
(6) It's easy to picture him on that barge, gliding peaceably along, unhurriedly in search of lost time.
(7) This paper tries to show that unless there is one and only one rationally sustainable definition of "a person", then the peaceable society cannot remain peaceable, but will be stirred up by groups with different and equally rational definitions.
(8) Most people fled, but according to the locals, several thousand peaceable citizens remained .
(9) It is worth looking back to what David Laws – the Lib Dem education minister, said to be "at war" with Gove but perfectly peaceable less than a year ago – said to the education select committee in October 2013.
(10) Srinagar, once a place where Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist lived peaceably side-by-side, all distinctively Kashmiri, is no longer such a place.
(11) The psychologist Steven Pinker has been advancing his belief that " this may be the most peaceable time in our species' existence " (news to the residents of Donetsk and Damascus, perhaps).
(12) Thus, further pursuit of the conditions that prevail in pregnancy may lead to a better understanding of the mechanisms used by "foreign" cells to coexist peaceably with host cells, bypassing immune mechanisms designed for their destruction.
(13) On 13 May, according to Mohammed, the shabiha moved into his area of al-Shammas, formerly a relatively peaceable Homs neighbourhood, and perpetrated a massacre there; he doesn't know how many were killed.
(14) In his recent book The Foundation of Bioethics, H. Tristam Engelhardt Jr. advances the idea of a peaceable pluralist moral society based on principles of autonomy, beneficience, and ownership.
(15) He was much praised for his influence in ensuring that the SLPP's transition from government to opposition took place peaceably.
(16) Being a gamer, though, means you fundamentally must believe in belonging: believe that people of all attitudes, from all walks of life, can peaceably coexist.
(17) Only this time nature was human: a flood of people who left their homes and walked peaceably into the squares of their cities to say "no more".
(18) Less than one year ago Li Keqiang, the Chinese premier, signed agreements with Vietnam on trade, infrastructure and maritime security, including recommitting China to a 2011 bilateral pact to manage peaceably their differences in the South China sea.
(19) But the notion that when dissent becomes so hostile or unpleasant that it should be curbed does not help those of us who wish to express opposition to the war cogently and peaceably but who often go unheard because of general media bias against our views.
(20) Commanders “actually knew that they could not lawfully arrest people simply for standing peaceably on the sidewalk,” she wrote.