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Discover LudwigThe phrase "combative person" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase when you are describing someone who is aggressively argumentative or confrontational. Example: The team members were not expecting such a combative person at the meeting, but they were able to remain professional and handle the situation.
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McCarthy may be known for his skill at political warfare, but he's far less combative in person.
But for Mr. Hill, who is more thoughtful and less combative in person than in the bellicose e-mails he tends to send, there is much at stake in ranked-choice voting.
One might even assume that Babbitt, in person, was a combative academic hell-bent on taking the fun out of music.
In person, Iglesias's combative public persona gives way to careful politeness ("Like the perfect son-in-law," according to Mouffe).
Waller County District Attorney Elton Mathis has already publicly described the victim as "very combative" and not a "model person".
This could put Twitter into precarious territory in this combative political era, where what one person is offended by is something others perceive as free speech.
In most combative, competitive environments, especially physical ones, the person with the most T wins.
On physical examination in our ED, he was combative and disoriented to time, place and person.
You can do it with one person, but if you have a combative child you need help.
Their relationship, if one can call it that given that they're the same person, is a strained one, shifting between combative and testy to Oedipal.
A thesis statement should not ask a question, be written in first person ("I"), roam off-topic or be combative.
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