Controversialist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Controversialist is a noun meaning One who regularly engages in public controversies.
Meaning
One who regularly engages in public controversies.
Example Sentences
Richard Dawkins has become a leading controversialist in a few areas.
This was to have been the final date of the rightwing controversialist’s charmingly named Dangerous Faggot Tour of US campuses.
His indefatigable adversary, who is the perfect model of an agile controversialist, had attacked him as a magniloquent Thraso, on account of his Pansophical promises.
He was not a drunkard, not a chronic bankrupt. For the rest, Mr. Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.
Word Forms
- controversialists
Synonyms for controversialist
Depending on context, synonyms include polemic, disputant.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disputant, eristic, controvertist, controverter, polemicist, firebrand.
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