Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
Wiktionary
- n. One who regularly engages in public controversies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
Examples
“a prank-calling controversialist, as well as a former”
“Thompson is a "controversialist", but he knows what he is doing.”
“lateral/unconvential thinker' or even 'controversialist'.”
“What the late, great controversialist would have said to Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and today's conservative talking heads.”
The Wall Street Journal: Buckley, If Not God, Returns to Yale
“The often amusing story of Lewis 'wartime radio broadcasts, which made him the world's best-known Christian controversialist.”
“But I would like to backtrack, Terry, and say that I don't think I'm a controversialist.”
“He was a magnificent controversialist and pamphleteer.”
The Guardian: Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
“The public world, where he spent much of his working life as writer and editor, thought of him as a controversialist, which he surely was (and a very skillful one at that).”
“Or a paragraph on the internets tossed off by a professional controversialist?”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“The middle-aged Denis Dutton is best known as the founder of the Web site Arts & Letters Daily, but The Art Instinct is the first book into which he has committed his energies as a controversialist.”
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