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Definition of Controversial
Controversial

Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.

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Controversial Quotations

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon

I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
Flannery O'Connor

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.
Steven Morrissey

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.
Simon Cowell

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
Matt Groening

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Pete Townshend

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.
Shakira

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson

Controversial Translations

controversial in German is strittig, umstritten
controversial in Swedish is omtvistad


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