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  • I tried various schemes to boost the circulation: I held poetry competitions, added a fashion column, and wrote controversial editorials, including one questioning the validity of standardized tests, which provoked an irate letter from the head of the state Department of Education.  (source)
  • Russell Pickett, the controversial CEO and founder of Pickett Engineering, wasn't home when a search warrant was served by the Indianapolis police Friday morning, and he hasn't been home since.  (source)
  • This was a far more controversial topic of discussion, and I could see him wanting to avoid it.  (source)
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  • Hired by Biosyn, he had conducted the controversial rabies vaccine test in Chile.†  (source)
    controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
  • Let's begin with a fairly uncontroversial one: the strong economy.†  (source)
    uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreement
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontroversial means not and reverses the meaning of controversial. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The vicar of their pleasant rural parish was not a controversialist, but a good hand at whist, and one who had a joke always ready for a blooming female parishioner.†  (source)
  • "Now, that seems to me a noncontroversial resolution," Molly said.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncontroversial means not and reverses the meaning of controversial. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • The piazza was the sight of a controversial subway stop.†  (source)
    controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
  • A remark about the weather, the most studiously uncontroversial opinion, aroused her annoyance.†  (source)
    uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreement
  • Down to Jefferson's day it was almost wholly polemical, and hence lacking in the finer values; he himself, an insatiable propagandist and controversialist, was one of its chief ornaments.†  (source)
  • It is hardly news, nor is it controversial.†  (source)
    controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
  • That much is uncontroversial.†  (source)
    uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreement
  • They were Richard Grant White, for long the leading American writer upon language questions, at least in popular esteem, and Thomas S. Lounsbury, for thirty-five years professor of the English language and literature in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, and an indefatigable controversialist.†  (source)
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