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

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

There is no principle less controvertible than that the subject has the same claims on the government for support and protection, as they have on him, for obedience and fidelity.

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by Wentworth, William Charles

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