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polemic
1. n. A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
2. n. An argument or controversy.
3. n. A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
4. adj. Having the characteristics of a polemic.

Example Sentences

Since her journalism has retained the same fury, one might have expected her next book to be another fierce polemic on the doom and gloom that she sees all around us.

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