debateable

Example Sentences

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It is however debateable whether that provision really applies in this case.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2018

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

From US News • Mar. 4, 2016

Nevertheless, Operation Midland has - on the face of it - been at the centre of some debateable decisions, particularly with regard to Lord Bramall.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 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

A frontier or debateable land is always of some breadth.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)