How to Use litigious in a Sentence

litigious

adjective
  • The litigious group is the subject of a mountain of lawsuits.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • The 2022 midterm elections might just be the most litigious ever.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Nunes is one of the more litigious members of Congress.
    William Cummings, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019
  • In this case, Lego has been litigious with third-party bricks in the past, so be cautious.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 26 Sep. 2016
  • The two girls, and their mother’s litigious nature, sparked much of the interest in the family in the years to come.
    Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2023
  • But more details about the fallout have come to light in Turner’s litigious move.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The names of the real-life gamblers in Bloom’s book have been changed, presumably, to protect the litigious.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Cordell said the show will not encourage people to be more litigious.
    Tracey Kaplan, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Nine of the top 10 most litigious hospitals in the state identified by the researchers were owned by CHS.
    Casey Tolan, CNN, 17 May 2021
  • Don't let the litigious phrasing fool you; Busch was going to be fired, and there is not much to investigate.
    Mac Engel, star-telegram, 7 Apr. 2018
  • To be sure, sometimes the more-often sought litigious strategy is called for.
    Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Nunes is infamously litigious, and the suit against Twitter was far from his last.
    Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 25 June 2020
  • The company carved out an aggressive and litigious path to growth.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The campaign for Dane County sheriff has taken a litigious turn.
    Bruce Vielmetti, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2022
  • While some owners may want Snyder out of the league, the notoriously litigious Snyder will sue the league and fight it in court to the bitter end.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2022
  • Solow developed a reputation as a builder with a great sense of design and a mean litigious streak.
    Patrick Clark, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • In 2014, the company cemented its place as the nation's most litigious patent troll of the previous year.
    Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 13 July 2017
  • Americans are a litigious lot, but lawyers aren't passing around business cards on the playground.
    Arkansas Online, 6 Dec. 2020
  • America is among the most litigious of nations and home to the most expensive legal system on earth.
    Brian Summerfelt, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And in these litigious times, anyone who appears to have assets can be a prime target for a lawsuit that could drain your resources.
    Ashley Kilroy, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Would the no-players be perceived as difficult or even litigious?
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Update, April 25: Morgan Wallen’s litigious fans have decided to settle it on the streets.
    Vulture, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In his past life as a litigious businessman-cum-showman, NDAs proved useful.
    The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • That case has been raised in the current trial by Gross’ attorneys in an effort to prove that Towfiq is litigious with neighbors.
    Laurence Darmiento Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a big gray area here: yes, the former President is famously litigious, but his lawyers will likely be battling on many fronts in the next few years.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Of course, the litigious Snyder won’t go down without exhausting every fight available, so kicking him out of the club will create a lot of headaches.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Not everyone was so enamored of Mr. Redstone, who was known to be hard-driving and litigious.
    David Marino-Nachison and Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The litigious bent in the United States make its cryonics firms especially twitchy.
    New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • Background checks are performed on borrowers and their businesses to weed out the litigious and deadbeats.
    Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • But despite having hundreds of lawyers on the ground in America, one prize has proved elusive: laying down deep roots in the world’s most litigious market.
    The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018

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