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Meanings of
controversialist
in inglês
catalão
polemista
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A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy.
disputant
eristic
catalão
polemista
Usage of
controversialist
in inglês
1
True, he's better known as a level-headed host than a headstrong
controversialist
.
2
Was a great
controversialist
,
a lifelong Democrat, and an enemy of Tammany.
3
A
controversialist
tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance.
4
The younger man did not present the appearance of a crushed
controversialist
.
5
Tonight's the night Ireland's chief
controversialist
aims to take on the establishment.
6
You could add government adviser,
controversialist
and futurologist to that list of attributes.
7
Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a
controversialist
.
8
He was the most prolific writer and
controversialist
of his day among nonconformists.
9
For the sincere
controversialist
is above all things a good listener.
10
I am not a
controversialist
,
or a theologian: I am simply an historian.
11
He was a Protestant
controversialist
,
and a satirist of fantastic and abundant imagination.
12
History, says the Jewish
controversialist
,
teaches no such lessons of finality.
13
He was a great
controversialist
,
and a man of great reading.
14
Even the hardened
controversialist
Coulton wrote in the course of one of their arguments:
15
In those days, he was better known as a film-maker than as a
controversialist
.
16
He was a particularly neat
controversialist
,
and very full of political and sociological ideas.
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controversialist
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
able controversialist
bear controversialist
great controversialist
keen controversialist
protestant controversialist
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Translations for
controversialist
catalão
polemista
disputador
Controversialist
through the time
Controversialist
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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