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polemic

[ US /pəˈɫɛmɪk/ ]
[ UK /pɒlˈɛmɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
  2. a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or involving dispute or controversy

How To Use polemic In A Sentence

  • We have a good deal of information about the polemical and often bitter arguments Christians, Jews, and pagans had with one another in the early centuries.
  • As statement that would be ok if it were an op-ed or a polemical essay.
  • The presentation of this "Judas," polemicizing as it was, was probably never meant to take on the historical and theological dimensions it has, traveling through the last two thousand years and leading up to the present, but with a stubborn toughness it has endured. Robert Eisenman: Redemonizing Judas: Gospel Fiction or Gospel Truth?
  • If you're calling the polemicist Arianna Huffington a "traditional network star," I demand that status be given to Ann Coulter. Infinite Monkeys - "...a sparkly blog..." - James Lileks
  • Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right? "That's one of the things that really bugs me about religion."
  • Is radical political speech always to be conceived as forceful and polemical?
  • These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.
  • This powerful polemic about the insidious links between media, celebrity and the public makes for entertaining viewing. Times, Sunday Times
  • But her shrill, naive polemicizing caused Michaels to inwardly wince, as if at a cruel reflection of himself. The Cry of the Onlies
  • His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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