polemic

noun

A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.

noun

A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.

adjective

Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.

Of or pertaining to controversy; controversial; disputative: as, a polemic essay or treatise; polemic divinity or theoIogy; polemic writers.

noun

A disputant; one who carries on a controversy; a controversialist; one who writes in support of an opinion or a system in opposition to another.

noun

A controversy; a controversial argument.

adjective

Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative

adjective

Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations.

noun

One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

noun

A polemic argument or controversy.