Usually means: Strong verbal attack on someone.
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  1. polemic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. polemic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polemic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polemic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polemic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Polemic, polemic: Wordnik
  7. polemic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. polemic: Wiktionary
  9. polemic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. polemic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. polemic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Polemic, polemic: Dictionary.com
  13. polemic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. polemic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Polemic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Polemic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. polemic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. polemic: Rhymezone
  19. polemic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. polemic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. polemic: Free Dictionary
  22. polemic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. polemic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. polemic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. polemic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. polemic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. polemic: Legal dictionary

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  1. polemic: A Word A Day

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  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. polemic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See polemicist as well.)

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noun:  A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
noun:  An argument or controversy.
noun:  A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
adjective:  Having the characteristics of a polemic.

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