Contentiously

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In a contentious manner; quarrelsomely; perversely; with wrangling.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adverb. In a contentious manner
  • Word Usage
    "He followed his London 2012 success by helping Rio de Janeiro win the 2016 Olympics and, most contentiously, masterminded Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid victory."