disputable

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The statement is roughly as disputable as saying that fire is hot or water is wet.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2022

How accountable are we for high school actions, when this is clearly a disputable high school action?

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2018

With two Tony Awards for best play, a Pulitzer Prize for drama and an award-showered HBO film by Mike Nichols, "Angels" is one of the less disputable modern classics.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2018

Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires” — for so long that it is unclear who coined that disputable term.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2017

And if Mr. Van Laun had confined himself to the affirmative part of his proposition, his position would have been less disputable than it became when he added his negative assertion.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various