Crossword clues for polemical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polemical \Po*lem"ic*al\, a. Polemic; controversial; disputatious. -- Po*lem"ic*al*ly, adv.
Polemical and impertinent disputations.
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious. 2 Causing an argument; causing the expression of opposing opinions; disputatious. alt. 1 Of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious. 2 Causing an argument; causing the expression of opposing opinions; disputatious. n. A diatribe or polemic.
WordNet
adj. of or involving dispute or controversy [syn: polemic]
Usage examples of "polemical".
He enters freesia a third time, leaving the S as 5 but turning the 1 back to an I, and finds himself staring at an unfinished polemical essay.
Of personal contributions to the literature of the subject, during the past third of a century, nearly everything has been more or less polemical, called forth by either exaggeration of utility, inaccuracy of assertion, or misstatement of fact.
Mr Siftwell is a shrewd and clear-seeing man in points of theology, and I would trust a great deal to what he says, as I have not, at my advanced age, such a mind for the kittle crudities of polemical investigation that I had in my younger years, especially when I was a student in the Divinity Hall of Glasgow.
He was branded a traitor by some people, forced to resign his position for the offense of lese majeste, and became the target of polemical attacks that charged him with possessing allegiances incompatible with the responsibilities to emperor and nation required of subjects in the educational rescript.
It should be added that doubtless the old hard line attitudes against stylistics still exist too, but in recent years structuralism and post-structuralism, rather than stylistics, have usually been seen as the major threat to traditional values in criticism, with the consequence that most liberal humanist polemical writing has been directed at these targets.
Schwerin Webmaster ordered a copy while it was still available, for his Internet site bristles with Grimm quotations and polemical retorts to the admittedly long-winded defense offered by Curti.
Apart from these, Kievan literature consisted mainly of polemical writings, sermons, and textbooks.
Of personal contributions to the literature of the subject, during the past third of a century, nearly everything has been more or less polemical, called forth by either exaggeration of utility, inaccuracy of assertion, or misstatement of fact.
And against the Atman tradition, the Anatman doctrine was wielded with much polemical force: in place of substance, flux.
When he wrote for men, as he did in his later work, he became dull, didactical, polemical.
But the same tendencies, together with a sort of raggedness which is no doubt intentional, weaken his epigrams and polemical poems.