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polemical

[ UK /pɒlˈɛmɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /pəˈɫɛməkəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or involving dispute or controversy

How To Use polemical 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.
  • The change is palpable from the helplessly childish response to Horowitz’s polemical ad in the Brown Daily Herald arguing against reparations in 2001 to a frank and reasonably respectful debate between college Republicans and Democrats prior to the presidential elections of 2004, to a nonsensational welcome for Rick Santorum at a campus lecture last year where many disagreed with him forcefully, but through the prism of rational discourse. The Volokh Conspiracy » Brown University Welcomes Duke Rape Case Victim:
  • Consequently, the students' writing is frequently polemical, abstract and coded.
  • The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit for polemical dispute. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
  • Of course, Calvin defended an Augustinian doctrine of God's sovereignty and predestination when exegetical and polemical occasion required.
  • Good bloggers tend to be acerbic, prolific, polemical, and good in short spurts.
  • Let me unpack a bit, because I know this sounds polemical, since I am clearly stating a bottom line.
  • And just so you don't have to rise from a sickbed over the long weekend, I'll try not to be polemical here and require a reply. Wisconsin: Dueling statistics about public employees
  • But no theory can replace that spirit, for any theory can be applied in an unscientific spirit, as a polemical device to reinforce prejudice.
  • Certainly, ideological and polemical magazines have been very important, but they tend to be short term.
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