altercation, argumentation, cat-and-dog life, controversy, dispute, fliting, imbroglio, passage of arms, rhubarb, squabbling, war of words
Definitionadj. of or involving dispute or controversy
Last update: June 7, 2015
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The students launched into a fierce polemic against the Government's policies. [Please select]
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He then proceeds into a series of polemic discourses with hypothetical Muslims. [adjective]
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The jokes work as long as Franken sticks to the point of the book: delivering an entertaining polemic while rallying dispirited Democrats. [adjective]
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There is nothing polemic in either. [Please select]
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He gained from the struggle a more catholic view of human happiness, at delight in the poetry of nature and the affections as well as the poetry of heroic unselfishness, a disposition to study more sympathetically the point of view of opponents, a more courteous style of polemic, a hatred of sectarianism, an ambition,, no less noble and disinterested, but moderated to practical' possibilities. [Please select]
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There is, accordingly, no proper polemic in the sphere of pure reason. [Please select]
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That is to say, hypotheses are admissible in polemic, but not in the sphere of dogmatism. [Please select]
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It was really a polemic demonstrating the sovereignty of God, rather than pure theology or metaphysics. [Please select]
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She had no opinions on anything more polemic than woolen union-suits, a topic on which Mrs. [Please select]
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] The "Lettres philosophiques" may be considered the first of Voltaire's polemic writings. [Please select]
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_ Very characteristic was the tireless polemic which Locke carried on against Descartes. [Please select]
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