argumentative
Example Sentences
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South Hall is known as one of Eastern’s “dump-off” blocks, where they send rabble-rousers, the outspoken, argumentative prisoners, the ones who have most fallen out of favor with the guards.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Adams was a balding curmudgeon from Massachusetts—brainy, argumentative and physically ill-favored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
If you’re skeptical about how exciting a movie about the weather on D-day might be, “Pressure” takes that as a creative challenge, an argumentative stance from which to start.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Yet Bengal - argumentative and steeped in a self-image of cultural exceptionalism - remained stubbornly resistant.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
He sat glumly through the rest of the hearing, holding his head, which I found even more disheartening than when he was argumentative and distraught.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Vocabulary lists containing argumentative
Common Core Grades 7–8, List 1
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Common Core Grade 6, List 1
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Common Core Grades 9–10, List 1
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