controvert
verb (used with object)
controvertible
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a word derived from
controvert.
Example Sentences
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There are many reasons children and parents become alienated but you have chosen to concentrate solely upon the most controvertible and ignored the mundane albeit less sensational.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2015
Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable.
From Time Magazine Archive
In defining as above the position which Christ assumed, we have not entered into controvertible matter.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by R. W. (Richard William) Church
Mrs. M. Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it.
From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Robert I. Fulton
Almost every new-acquired territory is, in some degree, controvertible, and till the controversy is decided, a term very difficult to be fixed, all that can be had is real possession and actual dominion.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
