Verb (used without object) : He argued in favor of capital punishment. ,The Senator argued with the President about the new tax bill. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The lawyers argued the case. ,to argue that the news report must be wrong. ,to argue someone out of a plan. ,His clothes argue poverty. From Dictionary.com.
I guess you're more of a stick your fingers in your ear and repeat yourself over and over "arguer". From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Pundit] Reference
Their problem is with the argument, not the arguer. From Wordnik.com. [Chiquitas Update - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Or simply that the arguer doesn't like/want to make. From Wordnik.com. [Melissa Silverstein: A Women's Cultural Moment] Reference
Boy, was her sister-in-law a good arguer, Lucy thought. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Hirshman: Red State, Chapter One: Safe] Reference
And silencing ones opponent is usually the refuge of the weak arguer. From Wordnik.com. [Free Speech] Reference
Thank you, I guess, but why single me out as the only good-faith arguer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Arab Christian Group Sues Over Anti-Leafleting Rule at Arab International Festival on Dearborn (Michigan) City Property:] Reference
Ils peuvent bien sûr arguer également de la faible qualité du résultat. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
(I don't know where the arguer worked, but I hope it wasn't the Disney Store.). From Wordnik.com. [Let's Lose the Murky Ambiguity of 'NSFW'] Reference
On either side enough may be said by any arguer to convince at any rate himself. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Trying to make that argument does more damage to the arguer than to the candidate. From Wordnik.com. [Jerome R. Corsi's #1 bestseller "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality."] Reference
So and the Pakistani government is going after bin Laden with quite a lot of arguer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2001] Reference
There are ways to critique an argument that redound very purposefully on the arguer. From Wordnik.com. [Whether true or not] Reference
I would still find it bogus, but I could understand where the arguer was coming from. From Wordnik.com. [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – August – 07] Reference
The other arguer stared at him with an expression like a spaniel trying to stay awake. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
And at some point, it becomes clear that the arguer is not seeking reasons, but excuses. From Wordnik.com. [Yes some guys are assholes, but it’s still your fault if you get raped] Reference
I am the arguer only, and, in my heart, all the time acquit and worship the divine creature. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
He was a persuasive arguer, a man who had a view of the future quite different from Broken Thumb's. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
The point of redoing the test was as an excerise of learning which the arguer clearly didn't catch. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Better To Be Right?] Reference
This is a particularly old school mode of thinking where the arguer confuses identity and anonymity. From Wordnik.com. [Internet Identity and Anonymity : #comments] Reference
The “ifs” can neither be accurate nor innaccurate … they are tools of convenience to the arguer. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Putin Jabs Bush: ‘We Certainly Would Not Want…The Same Kind of Democracy As They Have in Iraq’] Reference
If I expose the flaws in a bigoted argument, the conclusions about the arguer should speak for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:] Reference
Usually the arguer calls us “deviant” but deviance always turns out to be the same thing as unusualness. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The elephant in the room:] Reference
My dirty response to those arguments is to ask if the arguer was making them back during the Clinton administration. From Wordnik.com. [Spruiell Redux] Reference
Tony Blair is, of course, a very, very articulate speaker and arguer and he's capable of making decisions on the air. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2006] Reference
When an arguer says they do not wish to debate semantics, they are saying they do not wish to debate the issue's foundation. From Wordnik.com. [ideonexus.com » 2004 » 5月] Reference
When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too. From Wordnik.com. [A room of one's own] Reference
As for "sounding right wing", your refussal to address the argument and insistence on insulting the arguer is classic right wing technique. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Responds To Our Criticism Of Piece Slamming Edwards] Reference
No future arguer against miracles can afford to pass it over. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Louis, however, was a better arguer than the Count of Artois. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
He is no arguer, he is judgment (Nature accepts him absolutely). From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
He is no arguer, he is judgment -- (Nature accepts him absolutely;). From Wordnik.com. [In the Middle] Reference
A hungry stomach is a pretty stout arguer against abstract questions. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
"I never read the Scripture nor never will!" the Duke replied hotly to a Protestant arguer. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference
And I remind myself -- painfully -- that his argument holds whether the arguer believe or no. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor] Reference
To look at Dick's face it would have been unguessed that he was aught but a carefree, happy arguer. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference
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