A prank-calling controversialist, as well as a former.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Santa Barbara Independent stories] Reference

Thompson is a "controversialist", but he knows what he is doing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

'lateral/unconvential thinker' or even 'controversialist'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference

Neuhaus was a superb, natural controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

And, inevitably, there's Dre the controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's In The House] Reference

I am very careful not to become a controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

The historian is a theorist, yet no controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

A third controversialist went so far as to accuse the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference

He was a magnificent controversialist and pamphleteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman] Reference

John Milton was a poet and political controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

Too often he is merely the emotional controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxim Gorki] Reference

Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

He was a controversialist with larger goals than his own renown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Gerson on William F. Buckley] Reference

He was now a man of mark, because of his ability as a controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

Or a paragraph on the internets tossed off by a professional controversialist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I think I may be the only controversialist whose standing has gone up after 9/11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right] Reference

It's true that Geert Wilders is a controversialist, who takes pleasure in causing offence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Geert Wilders post - Geert Wilders persona non grata in the UK.] Reference

Though he was repeatedly involved in conflicts, his performance as a controversialist was poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desiderius Erasmus] Reference

"You are only reflecting your own desire to be a controversialist," he said to loud Tory cheers.    From Wordnik.com.  [No votes for prisoners, even ex-MPs] Reference

A remarkable site, whose discovery I owe to a MetaFilter thread by conservative controversialist hama7.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THE DECAMERON WEB.] Reference

Yet despite her 40 years as a fiery and productive controversialist, she died last year unhonored in Stockholm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

Another case in which the double appeared was that of Dr.F. R. Lees, the well-known temperance controversialist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

Outside of government, Moynihan was a Harvard professor, a controversialist and the embodiment of the public intellectual.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Born Controversialist] Reference

But Melville was not only the greatest ecclesiastical controversialist of his day; his name is pre-eminent in another sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference

Dr. O'Leary, though with great talents for a controversialist, always sedulously avoided the angry theme of religious disputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference

Parker proved an able controversialist, for he had been "a very distinguished scholar, the brains of his class" at Harvard Kring 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: 'Words are not the only language': Henry Whitney Bellows's view of scripture.] Reference

As religious controversialist, Cambridge librarian and creeper to the great and good, he had not the time to begin at the beginning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero: the first life?] Reference

Meanwhile the self-appointed controversialist Chris Davies reports the poll gleefully and claims he's been hit the most in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-25] Reference

It iswriting from a great controversialist, wrought from a struggle by a spiritsuddenly andsadlyback in mind within these office walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Jackson, man of 'the stagnant crowd', and two other men] Reference