polemicist
/pəˈlɛmɪsɪst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who puts forward controversial views.
Example Sentences
- "The choice is between a polemicist with deep ties to the alt-right movement, or a conventional policy professional with an open channel to the political establishment that Trump ran against, but which he needs to pass an agenda."
- "You know Ann describes herself as a polemicist..."
- "A similar impulse sometimes accompanies my reading of the work of Christopher F. Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the most gifted conservative polemicists of his generation."