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   litigious

   /lɪˈtɪdʒəs/

   adjective

   • 1. tending or too ready to take legal action to settle disputes: "our increasingly litigious society"
   • ▪ concerned with lawsuits or litigation.
   • ▪ suitable to become the subject of a lawsuit.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French litigieux or Latin litigiosus from litigium ‘litigation’, from lis, lit- ‘lawsuit’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. litigiously adverb
   • 2. litigiousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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