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  • adjective Not polemical; undisputatious.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ polemical

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Examples

  • A Pulitzer Prize – winning military correspondent for The Washington Post presents an unpolemical yet blistering account of the planning for and execution of the war in Iraq.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • A Pulitzer Prize – winning military correspondent for The Washington Post presents an unpolemical yet blistering account of the planning for and execution of the war in Iraq.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • After the open debate between Vetch and Benham -- the great John Benham, hero of war and peace, and tireless labourer in the vineyard of public service -- after this memorable discussion, Judge Horatio Lancaster Page had remarked, in his mild, unpolemical tone, that "though John had undoubtedly carried off the flowers of rhetoric, there was a good deal of wholesome green stuff about that fellow Vetch."

    One Man in His Time Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • But, as he justly observed, if he had written as these objectors wished him to write, no one would have read him; so he went on in his “sinuous, easy, unpolemical” way; and the people who disliked him closed their ears, and “flocked all the more eagerly to Messrs. Moody and Sankey.”

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • It was felt by many of his readers, and even by some of his most attached disciples, that the “sinuous, easy, unpolemical method” which he vaunted, and which he applied so happily to criticism of books and life, was not grave enough, or cogent enough, when applied to the criticism of Religion.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Not such was Arnold's method; he himself described it, most happily, as “sinuous, easy, unpolemical.”

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Here, as always and everywhere, he betook himself to his “sinuous, easy, unpolemical” method, and thereby made his repugnance to the proposed change felt and understood in quarters which would never have listened to arguments from Leviticus, or fine distinctions between malum per se and malum prohibitum.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • Not such was Arnold's method; he himself described it, most happily, as "sinuous, easy, unpolemical."

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • But, as he justly observed, if he had written as these objectors wished him to write, no one would have read him; so he went on in his "sinuous, easy, unpolemical" way; and the people who disliked him closed their ears, and "flocked all the more eagerly to Messrs. Moody and Sankey."

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • Here, as always and everywhere, he betook himself to his "sinuous, easy, unpolemical" method, and thereby made his repugnance to the proposed change felt and understood in quarters which would never have listened to arguments from Leviticus, or fine distinctions between _malum per se_ and _malum prohibitum_.

    Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886

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