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adj. - Of or involving dispute or controversy.

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  • It is convenient for many of the Europhiliacs to dismiss much of what Christopher Booker writes as polemical, that is when they are not in total denial mode.
  • Hence his criticism at this period was, as he himself has styled it, "polemical" and
  • You think I engage in polemical exaggeration?
  • In his private life he seemed to have been most lovable and estimable, although some of his writings, according to Julian, were "polemical" and "acrid in tone."
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