(n.) One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also free, there's 2012 best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd in her new show with Louise Ford, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society supremo John-Luke Roberts, controversialist Josh Howie, Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans – and indeed Omielan.
(2) Even professional controversialists and contrarians are not minded to suggest that Watkins is anything other than a complete public menace.
(3) Photograph: Rex The controversialist Katie Hopkins, writing in the Sun 48 hours before the latest mass drowning, suggested using gun boats on migrants ; her idea proved unnecessary, of course.
(4) All of which, as American media commentator Jay Rosen has written , has generated an equally controversialist class of article in reply, most often written far from the revolutions.
(5) Gore Vidal, the American writer, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died aged 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin's poise.
(6) Other projects were at one time said to be under way with involvement from George Clooney and perennial historical controversialist Oliver Stone , though neither has yet entered production.
(7) The first sees her as an unusually sophisticated media operator; a professional controversialist who knows how to play the publicity game to her advantage.
(8) Though a sensitive, emotional man acutely vulnerable to criticism, Terraine was also a bold and indefatigable controversialist, defending his views in the newspaper letter columns and in reviews, articles and a remarkable output of books.
(9) But Gill is too good an artist, too ferocious and intrepid a controversialist, to be protected and glossed over.
(10) With many former Middle East strongmen finding themselves indisposed after the Arab spring, all UN eyes on Friday will be fixed on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iranian president, diplomatic headache and effortless controversialist.
(11) From the London School of Economics via a rock band and the BBC Today programme, Rod Liddle has risen to become one of Britain's premier controversialists.
(12) In person he is polite and engaged, and in print always a contrarian but never a controversialist, sincere in beliefs that are almost as unfashionable on the right as they are anathema to the left.
Eristic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Eristical
Example Sentences:
(1) Electrophysiological charact eristics of frog intrafusal muscle fibers were studied by means of the intracellular potential recording.