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The Quintanillas, for better or worse, have been litigiously protective of her image, and this docuseries perhaps explains why to some extent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Both the Church of Scientology and Tom Cruise have a history of being litigiously aggressive, and both have denied the veracity of a great deal of the material in the book.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013

Of the importance of that innovation, and the mischief of that nuisance, they are, to be sure, bound to judge not litigiously: but it is in their competence to judge.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Instead of expressing anxiety to receive his son, he litigiously requires proofs, and more proofs, when he has received every satisfactory proof, already.

From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick

He boasted that he stood up litigiously for the interests of the college; and he had undefined and undefinable ideas that the marshal intercepted a 'Fund,' which ought to come to the collegians.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles