Usually means: Strong verbal attack on someone.
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  1. polemic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polemic: Merriam-Webster
  3. polemic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polemic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polemic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. polemic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Polemic, polemic: Wordnik
  8. polemic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polemic: Wiktionary
  10. polemic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polemic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polemic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Polemic, polemic: Dictionary.com
  14. polemic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. polemic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Polemic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Polemic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. polemic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. polemic: Rhymezone
  20. polemic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. polemic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. polemic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. polemic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. polemic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. polemic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. polemic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polemic: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polemic: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polemic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See polemicist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (polemic)

noun:  A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
noun:  An argument or controversy.
noun:  A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
adjective:  Having the characteristics of a polemic.

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