Citations:barbative

English citations of barbative

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• 1981 — The Bankers' Magazine, Volume 225, Issues 1648-1653, page 64:

  The extent of sterling's retreat showed 'a distinct loss of confidence in the Government's medium-term strategy,' and its behaviour 'should be a salutary reminder to Ministers that all is not well.'

  Less barbative reaction was to be encountered in the same paper's City Comment and in the Lex Column of the Financial Times.

• 1997 — Robin Chapman, The Secret of the World, Sinclair-Stevenson (1997), →ISBN, page 107:

  'Well, Rodney, it's gotta be you behind that stupid mask — who else would bother? So what's wiv you this time, matey? More mouth, as ever?' How's that for barbative? Like there's no enemy like an ex-mate, is there?

• 2000 — John J. Parkinson-Bailey, Manchester: An Architectural History, Manchester University Press (2000), →ISBN, page 307:

  Osbert Lancaster, Here, of all Places, 1959, an amusing and barbative caricature of suburban housing.

• 2002 — Colleen McCullough, The October Horse, Simon and Schuster (2002), →ISBN, pages 580-581:

  Most of the time he lay among the shadows, left the conversation to his elders. Except for those sudden, uncannily prescient, occasionally barbative, remarks. Uttered quietly but firmly.

• 2006 — James E. Montgomery, "Editor's introduction", The Oral and the Written in Early Islam (by Gregor Schoeler, trans. Uwe Vagelpohl, ed. James E. Montgomery), Routledge (2006), →ISBN, page 10:

  It was the task of Islamic theology to defend the religion against polemical attack from other religions; originally, Christians, Manicheans, and Zoroastrians proved barbative opponents, though polemic against the Jews also emerged during the fourth/tenth century.