I don't want to appear deliberately argumentative, but there are falsehoods in that statement. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
An argumentative discourse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It was one of the toughest assignments of senior year -- a 4,000-word argumentative essay on a controversial topic. From Wordnik.com. [Color My World] Reference
However, the "argumentative" student's behavior was totally inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Better To Be Right?] Reference
Judge stops board from replacing 'argumentative' director in Laguna Woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference
"I have tried him repeated and often," he says, kind of argumentative-like. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference
Proponents of such combinations claim follow two kind of argumentative paths. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
"No, I mightn't, sir," replied Ned, whose illness seemed to have developed a kind of argumentative obstinacy. From Wordnik.com. [Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy] Reference
It has no rhetorical, grammatical, argumentative or. From Wordnik.com. [Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget] Reference
It must be the heat that is making you so argumentative. From Wordnik.com. [The Village by the River] Reference
Editorials are therefore for the most part argumentative. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
We are quite rowdy and argumentative, eccentric and difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Why there's more to cookbooks than recipes] Reference
Holbrooke described Hill as "brilliant, fearless and argumentative.". From Wordnik.com. [So Far, So Fast] Reference
If only he'd written the whole book with similar argumentative rigor. From Wordnik.com. [Speaking The Unspeakable] Reference
He wasn't really argumentative, because he didn't brook any argument. From Wordnik.com. [Man In White] Reference
Those persons have no use for an intelligent, argumentative preacher. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, May, 1880] Reference
With Evan: an argumentative year about my degree of relationship committal. From Wordnik.com. [Things I Should Have Done - #4] Reference
The Virginia Coopers are strong-willed, argumentative and unexpectedly generous. From Wordnik.com. [Family Stories Mark a Family Reunion] Reference
Sermons and political speeches are usually argumentative and hence of this type. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
The highly argumentative or aggressive person is another common type of nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
+Style+ argumentative definition of descriptive illustrations narrative qualities of. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
It's not a view of myself I like-argumentative, bullheaded, trampling on other people. From Wordnik.com. ['I Know I'll Get Through This'] Reference
Gideon, as usual, in his quiet, argumentative way, endeavored to smooth the matter over. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
First of all there was the argumentative and positive Jim Prior, who might properly be regarded as. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
He has an argumentative, oracular air, when things have gone wrong, which always upsets my dignity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
You are argumentative, dogmatic and commanding in disposition, unyielding, inflexible and positive. From Wordnik.com. [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference
"You seem to take it for granted that it is a man," Mollie continued, still stubbornly argumentative. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
The effects of the wild oats 'theory are too tragically evident to need any argumentative refutation. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
As her Alzheimer's progressed she became argumentative, then mute and, worse for my father, incontinent. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of ‘I Am Sorry’] Reference
I did mean to be careful that my lips didn't offend, but 'tis no good when she's of an argumentative turn!. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
And when they are at their most argumentative, just for the sake of arguing, we put on the argument clinic. From Wordnik.com. [Monty Python Vet Eric Idle: 'Not The Messiah'] Reference
Our nerves are becoming wrought up, and we are developing unexpectedly irritable and argumentative natures. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
Exercises in argumentative writing may be continued by making selections from the discussion of easy topics. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The distinguished orator was certainly more declamatory than argumentative, and he was repeatedly called to order. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
It is in disquisition that he rejoices, and succeeds; it is the argumentative matter which excites and sustains him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
They held secret conferences in the kitchen, and grew loud and argumentative when they knew John Arthur was safely out of hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
A brief silence had fallen upon the little group at one end of the veranda, broken only by Nora's and Hippy's argumentative voices. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Colonel Starr's messages, diplomatic, argumentative, threatening, there had come the same unsatisfactory response -- the Maharajah of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sonny Sahib] Reference
Because most people in Bordeaux and Vichy did not suffer greatly during the war, their memories are argumentative and self-aggrandizing. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Recollecting World War Ii] Reference
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