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polemical

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1. polemical - Noun

2. polemical - Adjective

3. polemical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Polemic; controversial; disputatious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a "message", but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world. Peter Greenaway

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. David Hume

Polemical zeal can produce an fixation on the other side, or sides, of purely hostile intent. Perry Anderson

I suppose that I am a very serious poet – except for satirical verse, which I have also been compelled to write, though much of it may be inferior to my more serious poems – perhaps because I am not playful enough by nature, and even my satirical or polemical verse is not entertaining. Michael Hamburger

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. Carlisle Floyd

These are the assumptions we must make to give the questions the polemical force they are supposed to have. Not a single one of them stands up to closer examination. Paul Karl Feyerabend

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