contending Definition

competitive, competitory, arguing, claiming, asserting, competing, disputing, alleging, contesting, suggesting, opposing, saying, fighting, stating, supporting, dealing, struggling, invoking, grappling, citing, feuding, sustaining, affirming, pretending, warring, purporting, yelling, shouting, screaming, defending, believing, insisting, prove, challenged, denying, countered, battling, rejecting, complained, refuting, acknowledging, concluding, objecting, justifying, politicked, insinuated, criticizing, assailing, fearing, convinced, implying, favoring, contenting, concedes, dismissing, disagreed, rebutting, pressuring, estop, vying, seeking, petitioned, feuded, kowtowed, bellyached, overreaching, griping, assuring, agreeing, wronging, noting, reiterating, espousing, presumed, adducing, ruled, submarined, filed, deemed, suing, demanding, lobbied, vindicating, relegating, downplayed, declaring, jockeying, reasoned, hinting, accusing, denouncing, covets, scuffling, winning, sanctioning, intimating, protested, siding, chasing, squabbled,