After this luxurious meal everyone was very festive and amiably argumentative.

Pitt made a short speech, excellently argumentative, and not bombast, nor tedious, nor deviating from the question.

The more impassioned his pleading, the more utterly he held his own emotion in check; the more biting his subtly chosen words, the more courteous his manner; now deadly earnest, now humorously scornful, now graciously argumentative, but always skilfully and designedly convincing.

Hence, in the dialogues composed of these persons, naturally arises the justly argumentative or demonstrative genius; and this, as we have before observed, according to all the dialectic methods.

She was not stern, merely argumentative.

Francis W. Newman, in his "Regal Rome," thus describes Cicero's eloquence: "He goes round and round his object, surveys it in every light, examines it in all its parts, retires and then advances, compares and contrasts it, illustrates, confirms, and enforces it, till the hearer feels ashamed of doubting a position which seems built on a foundation so strictly argumentative.