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argumentativeness

/ahr-gyuh-men-tuh-tiv/US // ˌɑr gyəˈmɛn tə tɪv //UK // (ˌɑːɡjʊˈmɛntətɪv) //

争论性,论证性,辩论性,论证能力

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : fond of or given to argument and dispute; disputatious; contentious: The law students were an unusually argumentative group.
    • : of or characterized by argument; controversial: an argumentative attitude toward political issues.
    • : Law. arguing or containing arguments suggesting that a certain fact tends toward a certain conclusion.

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Examples

  • La Russa was given a field sobriety test and, per ESPN, was described as “argumentative” while being taken into custody.

  • In this way I probably developed the strain of argumentativeness, or perhaps combativeness, which has always remained with me.

  • There is a happy precision, a pithy brevity, a condensed argumentativeness.

  • His trenchant criticisms of literature, his keen delight in politics, his lively argumentativeness, were charming to her.

  • Her merry laughter brings relief from Schleiermacher's subtle argumentativeness and Friedrich's transcendental irony.

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