From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpolemicalpo‧lem‧i‧cal /pəˈlemɪkəl/ (also polemic) adjective formal ALCRITICIZEusing strong arguments to criticize or defend a particular idea, opinion, or person The reforms were attacked in a highly polemical piece in the ‘New Yorker’. —polemically /-kli/ adverb
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polemical• Until glasnost, unofficial art was so undocumented that information is still patchy and that which exists tends towards the polemical.• Yakovlev acquiesced in this polemical and unfounded notion.• But Durham, like Parham a few years earlier, chose the occasion to launch a polemical attack on Seymour.• Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday's Daily Mail.• polemical literature• Politics and art were inextricably enmeshed in Dada literary and polemical manifestos and anti-manifestos.• No one else used photomontage as a polemical medium so consistently and with such audacious cunning as he did.• Unlike most academic philosophy much of it is personal, polemical, poetical or allusive. 