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Controversial.

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  1. a. Controversial.
  2. adj. given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments
  3. Controversial. [Archaic] A specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic. Coleridge.
  4. s given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments