Obliging and Polemical

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Obliging adjective - Willing to do a favor.

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Polemical is an antonym for obliging.

Polemical adjective - Given to arguing.

Usage example: during the Middle Ages even theologians could be surprisingly polemical in their writings

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Obliging is an antonym for polemical.

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