debateable

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Wilde described the penalty as "debateable" and suggested his team might lodge a protest, but was quick to credit Yee, saying he was "chuffed" for the 24-year-old.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2022

Its debateable how many of us really need Genican, for example, a device that scans rubbish's barcodes as it is thrown away in order to build up a shopping list of replacement items.

From BBC • Jan. 1, 2017

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

From US News • Mar. 4, 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

There were for example her engagement ring and, still more debateable, certain other pre-nuptial trinkets Sir Isaac had given her.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)