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• a  given to or characterized by argument
  an argumentative discourse
  argumentative to the point of being cantankerous
  an intelligent but argumentative child

• We are an argumentative species.
• A schoolmate remembers him as "very argumentative in class.
• Over time the amiable, eager-to-learn Reid become more extremist and argumentative.

• unargumentative

News & Articles

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• Favorite ice cream flavors linked to personality traits
  CANTON, Mass., July 21 (UPI) -- If your favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip, you're more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious, a U.S. expert in smell and taste says.
  July 22, 2013 - UPI

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in The Associated Press
  ...Brand, a lawyer who helped prepare former President George W. Bush's nominees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, for their Judiciary hearings, said the subject sits through "tough questions, argumentative questions,...
• Studs Terkel in Washington Post
  It was those loners _ argumentative ones, deceptively quite ones, the talkers and the walkers _ who, always engaged in something outside themselves, unintentionally became my mentors,Terkel wrote in "Touch and Go."
• Mike Nolan in SportingNews.com
  He takes responsibility for it,Nolan said. "He was not argumentative in any way. He was disappointed for a number of reasons. The first one was that he felt he let his team down at a crucial time. ...... He did not blame it on anyone...