Controversial
[kɒntrə'vɜːʃ(ə)l] or [,kɑntrə'vɝʃl]
Definition
(adj.) marked by or capable of arousing controversy; 'the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial'; 'Rushdie's controversial book'; 'a controversial decision on affirmative action' .
Typist: Penelope--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Checker: Tom
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Disputatious, polemical.
Typed by Cecil
Examples
- I assure you I have no desire to be controversial. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Even in using this word Hun as a general equivalent for the Hiung-nu, we step on to controversial ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is consolatory to me that others find Professor Owen's controversial writings as difficult to understand and to reconcile with each other, as I do. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Bacon attacked the old learning and logic as purely controversial, having to do with victory in argument, not with discovery of the unknown. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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