What word listed is defined as "inclined to argue or debate"?

The word disputatious has been defined as "inclined to argue or debate". This word is used by noteworthy critics when they are reviewing scenes in movies, plots in books, or characters in plays.

A very good example of this is the 1976 film, All the President's Men. It is a movie where rivals working for the Washington Post, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman), research the botched 1972 burglary of the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex.

The news guys at the Post reveal some short comings in how the news is reported. In the movie, editors get credit for their courage in pursuing the Watergate scandal with more energy than other managers in American journalism. They are positively seem by critics and supporters as a "disputatious," egotistical group.

At the Post, the editors compete aggressively with each other for influence in reporting the news. There is infighting, jockeying, and harsh arguments in meetings, where they are holding policy deliberations (some scenes were added in the movie script after the director saw similar competitions/debates at the Post).