argumentative

“I feel like this is unnecessarily argumentative. What is your question?”

Marten refused to attend court one day after she had become "very argumentative and abusive to the staff in prison", according to the note from HMP Bronzefield.

He was never petulant, argumentative or stubborn – though I knew he was easily capable of those emotions.

Since his argumentative three-party governing coalition collapsed in November, he had been reliant on support from the opposition conservatives to pass any new laws, effectively rendering his administration a lame-duck government.

Investigators noted at the time that he was argumentative.