See controversial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:",
"text": "Whole libraries of controversial books.",
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"text": "MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society. So, a new national anthem? Fine. I'll go for that. But not two. Because that leads down a road we don't wanna go. Applause.\nKIMMEL: Do you feel like...\nMAHER: Thank you.\nKIMMEL: Hey there's a lot of fear in the air and generally, you don't want to be caught applauding something that might be controversial.\nMAHER: I couldn't give a fuck.\nKIMMEL: I wasn't talking about you.",
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"word": "שָׁנוּי בְּמַחֲלֹקֶת"
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"word": "ចម្រូងចម្រាស់"
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"word": "논쟁의 여지가있는"
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"word": "whakawehewehe"
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"sense": "arousing controversy",
"word": "спо́рный"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "somnítelʹnyj",
"sense": "arousing controversy",
"word": "сомни́тельный"
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"sense": "arousing controversy",
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"code": "gd",
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "arousing controversy",
"word": "connspaideach"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "arousing controversy",
"word": "kontrovèrzan"
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "sk",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "arousing controversy",
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"ref": "1864, John Price, Old Price’s Remains; Præhumous, or During Life; Comprising, with Select Patches of “Birkenhead Shore,” Various Other Articles, Scientific and Literary, Grave and Gay, London: Virtue, Brothers, […], page 88:",
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"ref": "1961, Alison Adburgham, A Punch History of Manners and Modes, 1841–1940, London: Hutchinson & Co., page 39:",
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"ref": "1993, Harold Meyerson, Ernie Harburg, with Arthur Perlman, Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz? Yip Harburg, Lyricist, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 357:",
"text": "Napoleon’s a pastry / Get this under your brow / All those big wig controversials / Are all commercials now.",
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"ref": "1997, Michael Siegal, Knowing Children: Experiments in Conversation and Cognition (Essays in Developmental Psychology), 2nd edition, Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 116:",
"text": "Although the numbers of controversial children were few, their finely tuned distinction between types of transgression concurs with the observation that the behaviour of controversials is highly skilled. While the behaviour of controversial children may often meet with negative reactions from peers and reprimands from adults, controversials may engage in even more prosocial behaviour than do popular peers (Dodge, 1983).",
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"ref": "2016, Inga Carboni, Tiziana Casciaro, edited by Dejun Tony Kong and Donelson R[oss] Forsyth, Leading through Conflict: Into the Fray (Jepson Studies in Leadership), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 122:",
"text": "One manager identified himself as a controversial, indicating both his formal role and confrontational style as reasons as to why he was both greatly liked and disliked. […] Lastly, a few managers suggested that controversials might have specific personality traits that make them liked by some and disliked by others.",
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