Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person skilled or involved in polemics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One given to controversy; a polemic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A polemic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who writes
polemics - noun A person who puts forward
controversial views
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
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Examples
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Marie Syrkin is best known as a polemicist for the State of Israel, whose keen arguments appeared in a wide range of publications for a period of almost seventy years.
Marie Syrkin. 2009
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Dowd is a polemicist, which is why conservatives like David take great offense at her remarks.
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If you're calling the polemicist Arianna Huffington a "traditional network star," I demand that status be given to Ann Coulter.
Infinite Monkeys - "...a sparkly blog..." - James Lileks Dr. Zaius 2010
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Of course, he is one of the leading polemicists of the so-called "New Atheists" movement, but "polemicist" does not equate necessarily with "hate monger" or "intolerant thug."
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The notion of Dylan as a hardcore political activist and polemicist, or as a dyed-in-the-wool man of the left, is not only antiquated but was essentially erroneous even in the early 60s.
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Colonial polemicist Robert Farley pens a provocative defense of the Zarek-Gaeta coup, predicated on rather cogent arguments that human/Cylon cooperation is doomed.
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Windschuttle is no historian -- he has no formal training in the discipline whatsoever -- but he made a name for himself some time ago as a far-right polemicist who found fault with some footnotes by Australian historians on the subject of the treatment of Aborigines.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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"Roy is probably now her country's most globally famous polemicist, as both a writer and speaker"
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In an attempt to nullify Henry Louis Gates 'lifetime of major achievement, the far-right polemicist and intellectual wannabe mocks his better thus:
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Windschuttle is no historian -- he has no formal training in the discipline whatsoever -- but he made a name for himself some time ago as a far-right polemicist who found fault with some footnotes by Australian historians on the subject of the treatment of Aborigines.
kewpid commented on the word polemicist
Ann Coulter reckons herself one.
February 16, 2008
isnotnull commented on the word polemicist
polemicist: noun
1. a person who engages in controversial debate.
It's a pet peeve of mine to see words defined using derivative terms, as in polemicist being defined as a person skilled or involved in polemics.
September 19, 2023