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polemical

[puh-lem-ik-uhl, poh-lem-ik-uhl] / pəˈlɛm ɪk əl, poʊˈlɛm ɪk əl /


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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 writings are, as a rule, only thoroughly understood if one reads both sides of the question.

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

In the national repertory there are Ballads Satirical, Polemical, and Political, and even Devotional and Doctrinal, of as early date as many of the songs inspired by the spirit of Love, War, and Romance.

From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by Geddie, John

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




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