Contended is valid Scrabble Word

Is contended a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
16 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTENDED in dictionary:

VERB:

CONTEND, to vie
struggle to surmount (a difficulty)
compete with others in a struggle to achieve (something)
assert something as a position in an argument

Words related to CONTENDED

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How to use CONTENDED in a sentence

The defence had contended that Hill had drawn the plan at his leisure at a time when he had access to a special quality of paper supplied to his master.
The Earl of Suffolk contended, that the population of the slaves in the islands could be kept up by good treatment, so as to be sufficient for their cultivation.
Both recognized God Almighty, and both contended against the despotism of kings seeking to be absolute, and in behalf of the people who were ground down by military power.
However, of this there is no dispute, that against the nobles, who threw contempt on the meanness of his condition, he contended with much firmness.
The very important agency which this grant has in carrying into effect every other grant is a wrong argument in favor of the construction contended for.
The object it seems to aim at is, in the first place, impracticable, and in the sense in which it is contended for, is unnecessary.
Her soul rebelled, contended desperately with fate, till, overcome, she sank into her chair, and suffered herself to be led to her room.
Having become established and respected by the world, the humble and self-denying spirit which at the outset renounced and contended with the world gradually departed.
Whosoever denieth this, hath denied Thy unity, and disputed with Thee about Thy sovereignty, and contended with Thee in Thy realm, and repudiated Thy commandments.
He contended, that while negociations were pending, war was actually declared by France, and that France, and not England, was therefore the aggressor.

As, however, all the circumstances of the case were not before them in the report, he contended that till they were the house could not be in a situation to come to any vote.
He contended that the smallest consideration of the causes and remedies of the present all-pervading distress would have been received by the country with gratitude.
Lord Brougham contended that the country would be glad to see the Conservatives return to office.
On the 26th of February he submitted a motion to the house embodying the principles for which he had contended at public meetings.
Schott, contended for the union of Reason and Revelation, 241.
It was a folly, a frenzy, her two friends contended.
He avowed himself no lover of names, and that he only contended for good government, from whatever quarter it might come.
For many centuries the Semites and the people of the north contended for the possession of the Syrian plains.
When we got the deer strung up I went off into the woods, and sat on a log, and contended with a queer sort of sickness until it passed away.
For a little while longer, Pike contended with his enemies by means of the best weapon he had, his facile pen.
He further contended that the preface stated that it did not treat of questions which would ultimately have to be settled by English prize courts.
It will not, I believe, be contended, that theory, and systems of art, are of themselves sufficient to form a genuine orator.
Lee contended that it was the duty of counsel to state what the party himself would have stated, and get a verdict if he could.
It is not contended that the act of Parliament did not expressly ordain an inquiry.
The preacher further contended that it was yet more difficult to realise that our earthly home would become the scene of a vast physical catastrophe.
He was opposed, with Alexander Hamilton, to the hanging of Andre, and always contended that it was not clearly established that he had come into the American lines as a spy.
But they contended, that the principle itself was false.
They contended that, according to the law of the land, taxation and representation were inseparable.

Similar words containing NTEND without suffix ed and without prefix co

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