debateable

Example Sentences

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Those may be debateable ideas in isolation, but they don't plug budget holes.

From US News • Mar. 4, 2016

Nevertheless, Operation Midland has - on the face of it - been at the centre of some debateable decisions, particularly with regard to Lord Bramall.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2016

Legal experts have said any actions Roush took on the bench after her original appointment expired Sept. 16 could be open to challenge by litigants because the legitimacy of her reappointment was debateable.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2016

Whether Richard will, like them, appeal to the mainstream pop audience is debateable, but he may well be a hit with Middle America.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2011

By this treaty the Dauphin was to marry Blanche of Castile and become Earl of Evreux, a dangerous earldom, and Philip was to drop the cause of young Arthur and give up debateable Vexin.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)