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"Likely to spark debate"2 answers
contentious11 letterscontroversial13 letters
Filled answer is this word (CONTENTIOUS).
Definitions
involving or likely to cause controversy
Word origin
From Middle French contentieux, from Latin contentiōsus (“quarrelsome, perverse”), from contentiō (“contention”), from contendere, past participle contentus (“to contend”). Equivalent to English contention + -ous.
Used in a sentence
“His essay[…] is likely to draw a furious response from across the party, where [Tony] Blair’s legacy remains highly contentious.”
“She was not a contentious person as the Other had been; she did not argue and contradict everything I said.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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