Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
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Controversialist
Synonyms for "controversialist" (9 found)
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French
1 entries- controversiste noun (one who regularly engages in public controversies)
Irish
1 entries- aighneasóir noun (one who regularly engages in public controversies)
Italian
1 entries- controversista noun (one who regularly engages in public controversies)
Turkish
1 entries- tartışmacı noun (one who regularly engages in public controversies)
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His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
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Does this explain the sensational character of some of his public pronouncements? A controversialist might drive through some of the later chapters with a coach and four without encountering serious impediments; but sono ben trovati, and he is a hold man who would presume to pass final judgment upon the contemporary phase of Italy’s history.
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He was not a drunkard, not a chronic bankrupt. For the rest, Mr. Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.
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