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polemical

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po·lem·ic  (p-lmk)
n.
1. A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
2. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.
adj. also po·lem·i·cal (--kl)
Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.

[French polémique, from Greek polemikos, hostile, from polemos, war.]

po·lemi·cal·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.polemical - of or involving dispute or controversy
controversial - marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action"

polemical
adjective controversial, cutting, biting, critical, acid, bitter, hostile, contentious, scathing, virulent, polemic, sardonic, caustic, venomous, vitriolic, acerbic, trenchant, argumentative, waspish, disputatious his biting polemical novel He's best when he's cool and direct, rather than abusive and polemical.
Translations
polemical [pɒˈlemɪkəl] ADJpolémico
polemical [pəˈlɛmɪkəl] adj [book, article] → polémique
polemical
adjpolemisch
polemical [pəˈlɛmɪkl] adjpolemico/a
polemical [pəˈlɛmɪkl] adjpolemico/a


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This was done with the idea of complimenting him, but the doctor had held himself aloof from all the learned bodies--belonging, as he did, to the church militant and not to the church polemical.
This is a poetical epitome of some of the scathing criticism of scholars which appears in the first of the "Thoughts out of Season"--the polemical pamphlet (written in 1873) against David Strauss and his school.
Whether he shall be put into the main road by constables, or by beadles, or by bell-ringing, or by force of figures, or by correct principles of taste, or by high church, or by low church, or by no church; whether he shall be set to splitting trusses of polemical straws with the crooked knife of his mind or whether he shall be put to stone-breaking instead.
 
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