Definition of "polemicist" []

• A person skilled or involved in polemics. (noun)

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• "Marie Syrkin is best known as a polemicist for the State of Israel, whose keen arguments appeared in a wide range of publications for a period of almost seventy years."
• "Dowd is a polemicist, which is why conservatives like David take great offense at her remarks."
• "If you're calling the polemicist Arianna Huffington a "traditional network star," I demand that status be given to Ann Coulter."