confrontative
adjEtymology From confront + -ative.
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confrontational
- ONE reason women choose other women as targets “is probably some idea that they can find a less confrontative person or someone less likely to respond to aggression with aggression,” said Gary Namie, research director for the Workplace Bullying Institute, which ordered the study in 2007.2009 May 10, Mickey Meece, “Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work”, in New York Times: