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UK
/kˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəli/
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ADVERB
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involving controversy
criticism too polemically stated
How To Use controversially In A Sentence
- More controversially, the resource accounts are shared, with electronic statements produced for the street as a whole, leading to self-policing peer group pressure to achieve the targets and so receive rebates.
- Finally, and most controversially, it covers everyday, unadapted items, which are capable of being used to cause injury.
- Certainly my academic career is one to which the adjective ‘vacuous’ can be uncontroversially applied.
- In the first part of the lecture, Heidegger begins by claiming, uncontroversially enough, that the specific sciences deal with their particular realm of things, and besides that they are concerned with nothing.
- Controversially, in 1997 she published Emma in Love, an update of Jane Austen's novel in which Emma leaves her marriage to Mr Knightley unconsummated and falls passionately in love with a French baroness.
- The discourse of Sarah Palin and her friends is appalling on its own, but worse is the way in which their readings of the Constitution and American history in general have been accepted as uncontroversially true by so many voters. Robin Lakoff: Education: Yes, but Why?
- And it shows that disparate impact is not “really about reparations for slavery,” since disparate impact analysis has uncontroversially been applied to all Title VII categories for decades. The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
- The inquiry team will also controversially clear the Crown of any racism in its handling of the case.
- But here's the clincher: It seems to have completely escaped the European politicians prattling about issues like animal welfare, biodiversity and ethics that cloning technology of one sort or another is already widely applied to a variety of foods that Europeans and American have consumed routinely and uncontroversially for years. The Cloned Cow Has Left the Barn
- Well, glass, snack, and naturally for starters; they all started their lives with different meanings from those they are now uncontroversially allowed to have. What’s wrong with “hopefully”? « Motivated Grammar