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The issue of the death penalty is highly controversial in some states.controversial = tends to arouse strong disagreement
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The school reached a controversial decision on affirmative action.controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
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My father also loved to write poetry, sometimes about love, but often on controversial themes such as honor killings and women's rights. (source)
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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)
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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)
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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
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Let's begin with a fairly uncontroversial one: the strong economy.† (source)uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreementstandard 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.
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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)
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"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.
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The piazza was the sight of a controversial subway stop.† (source)controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
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A remark about the weather, the most studiously uncontroversial opinion, aroused her annoyance.† (source)uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreement
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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)
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It is hardly news, nor is it controversial.† (source)controversial = tending to arouse strong disagreement
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That much is uncontroversial.† (source)uncontroversial = not tending to arouse strong disagreement
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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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