polemicist

noun
/pəˈlɛmɪsɪst/

Etymology

From polemic + -ist. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -ist.

Definitions

  1. A person who writes polemics.

  2. A person who puts forward controversial views.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA