Confrontationist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who favours confrontation.

Synonyms

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confrontationalist

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"Lots of people who have heard of Betty Friedan misstate her place in history. She was not a man-hater, not a bra-burner, not a sexual confrontationist, touting the birth-control pill. A suburbanite, wife and mother, she would be forced out of the National Organization for Women, which she co-founded, for being too conservative."

Etymology

From confrontation + -ist.

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