argumentative

Example Sentences

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“If someone is being argumentative, try to de-escalate by calmly saying, ‘I hear you,’ and try to work it out,” says Beverly Randolph, director of The Protocol School of Indianapolis.

From Seattle Times

Media briefings are once again held daily and are informative, not argumentative.

From Washington Post

In founding a journal of ideas, they had joined a long tradition in which young, ambitious, argumentative writers decide that, in order to be heard, they must start a publication.

From New York Times

“Putin was ice-cold calm throughout, but argumentative from start to finish,” Mr. Biden recalled in a memoir.

From New York Times

Just as Americans would casually chalk up my respect for my parents to “Chinese collectivism,” Chinese people would attribute my argumentative personality to “American individualism.”

From Washington Post