polemical

adj

1. Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.

   “[…] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.”

   “Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.”

2. (derogatory)Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.

   “And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.”

   “Not only are all these allegations worded in an unnecessarily polemical style, they are also simply false”

   “Remarkable here is the rather polemical choice of words […]”

   “If democratic legitimacy is a principle—and not just a polemical weapon wielded by the left in a selective and self-serving way—then we would have to consider not only the democratic legitimacy of a potential reversal of Roe but also the democratic legitimacy (if any) of the constitutional right to abortion itself.”

   “Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.”

noun

1. A diatribe or polemic.