controvertible

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There are many reasons children and parents become alienated but you have chosen to concentrate solely upon the most controvertible and ignored the mundane albeit less sensational.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2015

Some of his evidence was indeed controvertible, and much of it was questionable.

From Time Magazine Archive

And admitting that the last point is controvertible, there remains this unanswerable question: is a woman possessed because she is hysterical, or is she hysterical because she is possessed?

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Mrs. M. Now don't attempt to extirpate yourself from the matter; you know I have proof controvertible of it.

From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Fulton, Robert I.

He accordingly lays hold on the figures that set off his argument, and out of fancy premises he draws a solid conclusion which in no sense needed such controvertible data.

From The Commercial Restraints of Ireland by Hutchinson, John Hely