problematical

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He said the east and north was "a bit more problematical" , where routes are being checked in Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen, and on the line from Perth to Inverness.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2022

Auden’s despairing poem “The Age of Anxiety”—what he called a “record of our difficult and problematical search for faith.”

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2021

Has the drive for economies made the clinic’s mission more problematical?

From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2018

This would only be problematical if you viewed animals in some way as our equals and, while some people do hold this view, again, I do not.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2016

He is both brilliant and problematical, and it is fair to say that his towering legacy has had more impact on the worlds of literature, philosophy and politics than, strictly speaking, on musical development.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall