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polemically
adverb
formaluk /pəˈlem.ɪ.kəl.i/ us /pəˈlem.ɪ.kəl.i/
in a way that strongly attacks or defends a particular opinion, person, idea, or set of beliefs:
She speaks engagingly, but never polemically.
The response of most critics to this novel was polemically hostile.
He was an atheist who often wrote polemically against organized religion.
The pamphlet was too badly written and polemically inclined for me to take it very seriously.
She does not make her argument polemically but rather by assembling a huge amount of evidence to support her ideas.
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