controvertible

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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

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 Hutchinson, John Hely

All this is doubtless controvertible, and what has been written may serve only to amuse or to disgust those who are better versed in the facts of our history and keener analysts of its laws.

From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

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 Johnson, Samuel