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• s  inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
• s  striving to overcome in argument
• s  having or showing a ready disposition to fight
  a combative impulse

• contentious
• disputatious
• disputative
• litigious
• agonistic
• agonistical
• battleful
• bellicose

News & Articles

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• Witness gets combative with defense attorneys in Zimmerman trial
  A friend who was on the phone with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin moments before he was fatally shot by George Zimmerman got combative with defense attorneys during testimony Wednesday. Rachel Jeantel testified that she heard the Miami teen shout, "Get off! Get off!" before his telephone went dead. She then recounted to jurors in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial how Martin told her he was ...
  June 26, 2013 - WFTV 9 Orlando
• Politics Trumps Friendship as Lhota Attacks Weiner
  With the candidacy of Anthony D. Weiner gaining in one poll, Joseph J. Lhota’s relationship with him has gone from cordial to combative.
  June 26, 2013 - New York Times
• BoE's King signs off, condemns banks for lobbying
  By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, making probably his final public comments before retiring, accused British banks of lobbying senior politicians to undermine a new system of financial regulation. King - who has had a combative relationship with Britain's lenders in his 10 years as governor - said on Tuesday some banks had contacted the offices of Prime ...
  June 25, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ranjan Madugalle in Times Online
  Madugalle said: "Cricket is a noncontact sport and any deviation from that fact is completely unacceptable, a point I made to Sreesanth in handing down my verdict." "I have no problem with players being combative on the field but there is a...
• Paul Hart in AFP
  Michael's a player who has shown he can perform at this level,Hart said. "He's very combative and someone who I've admired for many years. He'll add plenty of steel to our side."
• Allan Gregg in Times and Transcript
  Conventional wisdom and perhaps even common sense might suggest a less-than-productive, combative and scandal-tainted parliamentary session would present political disaster for an incumbent government,said Harris-Decima chairman Allan Gregg....