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How to use argumentative in a sentence

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I have found that, with my mother nursing me again, we have grown closer, even though my argumentative manner hasn't waned with my health.
Despite a somewhat argumentative meeting with my boss on Friday, things smoothed out in the end so I'll have a good reference.
He was snippy, feisty and reminded me of an argumentative drunk who challenges the whole bar to a fist fight.
Although a wonderful turn of the screw to contemplate, it is not the argumentative tactic that I would promote.
And what has become of the manager's reputation for being an argumentative cuss?
The paper then directed all of year 10 to select one question, answer it and discuss the reasons for their answer in an argumentative essay.
Towards the end of my little encounter with Sophie Ward we argue about whether or not she is argumentative.
If he doesn't eat, his sugar is low, then he tends to get very argumentative, moody and bad-tempered.
As I have already suggested, this clarity of style was compatible with considerable compression, even elusiveness, in argumentative structure.
Indeed, the seeds of bitterness germinating in him today are also the seeds of a disorganised, argumentative political party.
I love the garrulous, argumentative people, with their speech, which boasts impressively rounded vowels.
We had just come from one of our lunches, meetings filled with the argumentative yet respectful conversation of committed cinephiles.
According to his argumentative, self-defensive memoirs, he is always correct and almost everyone else catastrophically mistaken.
Here he portrayed his wife, not as mild or inoffensive, but as argumentative and idle.
He is widely disliked among his peers because he is disrespectful, argumentative and abusive towards people.
Self-control will help them appear strong, sensible, and reasonable rather than demanding, argumentative, or stubborn.
Reasoning, Toulmin argued, was an argumentative and persuasive activity, embedded in concrete human predicaments.
But without being overly argumentative, I think some people, given what they know about your background, would want me to ask this question.
He was said to be boorish and unmannerly and argumentative and moody and addicted to reading, of all things.
This is not the same as being argumentative, or arguing just for the sake of arguing.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Consequently Mr. Goldenweizer can make no argumentative use of the alleged local names of the Tlingit clans.
He simply took his model and abridged it, by throwing out all argumentative, illustrative and amplificatory material.
As a matter of course, he was loud, clamorous, dogmatical and not very argumentative.
It may be narrative, descriptive, expositive, or argumentative.
He is hypersensitive and emotional, not argumentative and judicial.
Mandeville, in his argumentative way, dissents from this entirely.
Lorry opened his hands, and extended them outwards with an argumentative smile.
Micawber, in her argumentative tone, 'to be the Caesar of his own fortunes.
Lucian's references to the school are as eristic or argumentative.
Voices from forward came to him, muffled, but angry and argumentative.
But he was an old bird, and not to be caught in an argumentative cage.
The argumentative child is scarcely less trying than the enfant terrible.
That is, a city of extremely truculent and argumentative local political leaders at the time of his bon mot.
Miss Bates's powerful, argumentative mind might have strengthened yours.
Macey, sitting a long way off the ghost, might be supposed to have felt an argumentative triumph, which would tend to neutralize his share of the general alarm.
Unfortunately this well-deserved praise is parsimoniously dispersed throughout a review that is for the most part vituperative, nit-picking, and argumentative.
They are renowned for being proud, stubborn, argumentative, blunt, self-effacing and more rough and ready around the edges than is traditionally the norm.
His voice, always very mild and interrogative, gradually became as soft and as tenderly argumentative as if he had been talking to a much-loved child.
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