contestable

[ UK /kəntˈɛstəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /kənˈtɛstəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. capable of being contested
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How To Use contestable In A Sentence

  • What is uncontestable is that he is an honest player and, in the present climate, he accepts that is crucial. Times, Sunday Times
  • So that deciding contestable moral questions by reference to what any particular person would think about them loses its validity.
  • Some courts treat incontestability as creating a rebuttable presumption of strength, but the analysis should be separate: "there is no apparent reason that the incontestable status of a mark should automatically translate into a well-known mark. Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log
  • Knowledge is particular and perspectival, and as such is always contestable.
  • Sounds came at length -- harsh and startling; -- the unmistakable note of the jezail; answering shots from his own men; -- proofs incontestable that a sharp engagement was in progress up above. Captain Desmond, V.C.
  • Now, there are some interesting restrictions on English reduplication, but the plain fact of it is incontestable (at least in every North American dialect I've ever come across).
  • Except that we received much more challenging and contestable papers that opened up the question of culture by showing it rather than saying it.
  • Besides this diplomatical dignitary and his wife, we had two American gentlemen of more than average intelligence, who related wonderful things of the 'spiritual manifestations' (so called), incontestable things, inexplicable things. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Notice that, for him, it's just a fact, entirely incontestable, that there's no evidence againstthe Standard Narrative of 9/11; and so he doesn't even think of actually contending withthe evidence, but urges that it be "debunked" covertly -- and pre-emptively, so that thepublic never gets to hear about it, and discuss it for themselves. Obama's Info Chief advocates Disinformation and Domestic Covert Ops
  • The show's creator, Marc Cherry, appeared to admit one of the incontestable truths about TV — "The only thing harder than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it" — saying he was afraid the show would "drift away into nothing" if allowed to continue indefinitely. Critic's TCA Notebook: That's a Wrap
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