polemic
nounA controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
nounA person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.
adjectiveOf 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.
nounA disputant; one who carries on a controversy; a controversialist; one who writes in support of an opinion or a system in opposition to another.
nounA controversy; a controversial argument.
adjectiveOf or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative
adjectiveEngaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations.
nounOne who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
nounA polemic argument or controversy.