polemical
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Polemical and incendiary asides follow thick and fast.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2011
They may be rudely divided into five groups: the Polemical Roarers, the Confessional Sufferers, the Tiny Imagists, the Compulsive Reporters and the Cult Poets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polemical philosophy, as distinguished from quiet, reflective, and critical but constructive philosophy involves a most uneconomical use of mental force.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
A little later, W. Bodham Donne, a Norfolk man and acute critic, said, “We all read Mr. Borrow’s books,” but lamented his “plunge into the worse than Irish bogs of Polemical Protestantism.”
From Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by Hooper, James
"Polemical enemies, I should say," Marion replied sharply.
From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)
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