argumentativeness

I felt all the dogged argumentativeness of my nature awake within me as I answered him:—

His questioning of Rosendorff drew two successful objections from the government, for argumentativeness.

Her vulnerability is constantly telegraphed at the expense, it can seem, of her other characteristics — that vaunted intelligence we keep hearing about, her argumentativeness and unconventionality.

A large part of this was the fault of CBS’ moderators, who seemed to be goading the candidates into arguing while being completely unprepared to deal with their argumentativeness.

“I love it because of the argumentativeness, because every staircase in Israel is full of memories and stories and conflicting ideas.”