polemically
- adverb
- /pəˈlɛmɪkli/
- Formal
:
polemicamente
- The author wrote polemically, challenging the popular beliefs of her time.
Examples
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Perhaps we are anyway now disposed to be a little skeptical of the term 'general reader' and to recognize that it is more often used polemically than descriptively.
Academic text (1999) -
In the early decades of the century, they polemically rejected stone to reject the weight of history.
Academic text (2000) -
I based her entire style polemically upon you: passionate and irrelevant.
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But what if we were to propose that Benjamin's invocation of Tret'iakov is not just late, but deliberately and polemically so?
Academic text (2002) -
These books, the first polemically constructed photographic arguments in the history of the medium, arose from the complex discursive field that was the Weimar Republic.
Academic text (2000) -
As Peter Wollen wrote polemically in 1972, in defense of the Eisenstein type of filmmaker, "different people may experience the fact of poverty, but can attribute it to all kinds of different causes: the will of God, bad luck, natural dearth, capitalism."
Academic text (2017) -
Together, Anthony Godzieba and Lieven Boeve clearly maintain that Catholic theology must engage issues around corporeality if it wants to defuse the current polemically charged theo-political context and progress beyond it.
Academic text (2006) -
In the debate, he argued polemically against his opponent's claims for hours.
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The article was written polemically, provoking strong reactions from its readers.
Synonyms
3
6.1
In a way that makes people disagree strongly
1
7.4
In a way that causes strong disagreement
1
9.9
In a very harsh and angry way that hurts people
In a way that often argues with others or challenges their ideas
You speak in a way that shows you like to disagree with others
Antonyms
How Argumentative
126
4.9
- Formal
49
3.5
106
4.4
110
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Polemically comes from the Greek root polemos, meaning 'war', so a polemical argument is like a verbal battle. So to speak polemically is to attack an idea strongly or to argue in a sharp, controversial way.