polemical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++po·lem·i·cal /pəˈlemɪkəl/ (also polemic) adjective formal ALCRITICIZEusing strong arguments to criticize or defend a particular idea, opinion, or person 抨击的；争辩的 The reforms were attacked in a highly polemical piece in the ‘New Yorker’. 《纽约客》一篇措辞强硬的文章猛烈抨击了这些改革。 —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.po·lem·i·cal adjectiveChineseSyllable
particular or to a defend arguments using strong criticize Corpus
polemical
po‧lem‧i‧cal /pəˈlemɪkəl/
(also polemic) adjective formal
using 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
po‧lem‧i‧cal /pəˈlemɪkəl/
(also polemic) adjective formalusing strong arguments to criticize or defend a particular idea, opinion, or person:
—polemically /-kli/ adverb