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Polemics
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- And there was a dangerous tendency in his polemics to emotional strain and visionary distraction.
- He spends hours a day composing polemics and formal letters in pixels.
- There are dangers in using and dangers in legalization, so one-sided polemics are useless.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
noun
1.
a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
2.
a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.
adjective
3.
Also, po·lem·i·cal. of or pertaining to a polemic; controversial.
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