Sentence examples for disputative from inspiring English sources

Plausibly, this is a result of his difficult childhood of his unbalanced, disputative, and abusive mother, who would erupt, unpredictably, into vicious rages.

The category of constatives includes the subtypes, in Bach and Harnish's terms, of assertives, predictives, retrodictives, descriptives, ascriptives, informatives, confirmatives, concessives, retractives, assentives, dissentives, disputatives, responsives, suggestives and suppositives (1979: 41).