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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    polemic


    1. engaged in fierce polemic


    2. Donald, in a rambling polemic, accused her of incompetence, bullying methods, having no control over her underlings and trying to ruin the local economy


    3. However it has happened here and there that science has fallen into the hands of unreasoning zealots with a particular ideological axe to grind; and when that has happened science, in the sense of being an objective search for intellectual truth, winds up being a polemic to defend some political agenda


    4. She grew provoked at the doctrines of religion; the arrogance of the polemic writings displeased her by their inveteracy in attacking people she did not know; and the secular stories, relieved with religion, seemed to her written in such ignorance of the world, that they insensibly estranged her from the truths for whose proof she was looking


    5. With reference to the military side- the plan of campaign- that work of genius of which Thiers remarks that, ‘His genius never devised anything more profound, more skillful, or more admirable,’ and enters into a polemic with M


    6. With reference to the military side—the plan of campaign—that work of genius of which Thiers remarks that, “His genius never devised anything more profound, more skillful, or more admirable,” and enters into a polemic with M


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    Synonyms for "polemic"

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    "polemic" definitions

    a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)


    a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)


    of or involving dispute or controversy