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

Tampa Bay’s third power-play goal of the game was set up after a disputable tripping penalty called against Stars captain Jamie Benn.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2020

Much of the language isn’t coherent enough to be specifically disputable.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2019

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

From Salon • Sep. 19, 2018

Without recurring to disputable authority, I appeal from Voltaire to himself.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William