These nabobs waltzed into the capital with an arrogance that was breathtaking. Their prefatorial deficit resulted in a polemical stance at absolute contraposition to the legislature’s puissance.
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Polemical
//pəˈlɛmɪkəl//
Synonyms for "polemical" (36 found)
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10 translations across 6 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- polèmic adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
- polèmic adj (disputatious)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 挑起爭端嘅 /挑起争端嘅 adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 好争论的 adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
- 好争论的 adj (disputatious)
Esperanto
1 entries- polemika adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
Georgian
2 entries- პოლემიკური adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
- პოლემიკური adj (disputatious)
German
2 entries- polemisch adj (of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious)
- polemisch adj (disputatious)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
[…] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.
Source: wiktionary
Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.
Source: wiktionary
And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
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