opinionative

Example Sentences

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In this he but copied the adversary—Parson Endicott, for example—who hated Dissent, perceiving that it rested on self-assertiveness, encouraging unlearned men to be opinionative in error.

From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

That was just like a narrow, cranky, opinionative, unmanageable Calhoun.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

They were not only opinionative," he writes, "peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affections, which never descended below their grandchildren.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

She knew that she wanted a friend—some one less opinionative than Mr. Fenshawe—to whom she could appeal for help and guidance when difficulties arose.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis

But in course of time the gratitude of the country exhausted itself, and Thiers, who was old-fashioned in many of his opinions, and as opinionative as he was old-fashioned, did not make any new friends.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)