The phrase "argumentative to" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in the context of argumentative writing or speaking, where one is expressing their opinion or viewpoint and attempting to persuade or convince others. Example: The politician's speech was highly argumentative to the opposing party's policies.
His second wife Elspeth - still living in the 17th-century farmhouse she rented with Barker, with his desk and chair still exactly where he wrote - says "he never did anything to promote himself, never went to literary parties, and was too difficult and argumentative to belong to anything like a literary school".
That word has been so abused by commentators in recent years that it now means everything from being argumentative to sending death threats.
He is said to have been very argumentative, to the point where he would argue with all those around him bar the enemy.
It may seem unnecessarily argumentative to suggest that something that is so evidently 'good' requires evaluation.
Mr. Milosevic, undeterred, tried to pose lengthy argumentative questions to prove that there had been a wave of violence against Serbs in Kosovo, but Judge Richard May intervened.
At the Poop Deck, a second-floor tavern with a porch that catches a breeze off the Gulf that rarely makes it inside the bar, neither man was known to have been argumentative or to have dressed as a woman.
Participants were asked to write an argumentative text to describe their living preferences.
There are two kinds of argumentative routes to Replacement Naturalism, both due to Quine: the first arises from doubts about the analytic-synthetic distinction (Quine 1951); the second from doubts about foundationalism (Quine 1969).
Its explosive, argumentative approach to modern issues laid waste to the remaining lightweight programming in primetime.
Metadiscourse is important in all formal writing, but it is claimed to be especially crucial in argumentative writing, to facilitate persuasion (Crismore et al. 1993; Hyland, 2004; Hyland & Tse, 2004; Williams 1981).
It appears, then, that the strongest specification of the present line of reasoning actually relies upon the next (and final) argumentative strategy to be considered and may, as we will see, lead to the conclusion that we should permit individuals to select among several standards of death.
