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
He accordingly lays hold on the figures that set off his argument, and out of fancy premises he draws a solid conclusion which in no sense needed such controvertible data.
From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by John Hely Hutchinson
Mrs. Malaprop.—Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
