Usually means: Strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious.
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  1. polemical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. polemical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polemical: Collins English Dictionary
  4. polemical: Vocabulary.com
  5. Polemical, polemical: Wordnik
  6. polemical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. polemical: Wiktionary
  8. Polemical, polemical: Dictionary.com
  9. polemical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Polemical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Polemical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. polemical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. polemical: Rhymezone
  14. Polemical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. polemical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. polemical: Free Dictionary
  17. polemical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. polemical: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. polemical: Legal dictionary

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adjective:  Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
adjective:  Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
adjective:  (somewhat derogatory) Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
noun:  A diatribe or polemic.

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