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US
/ˌənˌkɑntɹəˈvɝʃəɫ/
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[ UK /ʌnkˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌnkˌɒntɹəvˈɜːʃəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- not likely to arouse controversy
How To Use uncontroversial In A Sentence
- But the case for policy activism of some kind is fairly uncontroversial. The Times Literary Supplement
- That is, unless he's assuming that it's no benefit at all because taxpayers oughtn't to have the money -- in which case he's engaged in something very different from the exercise in uncontroversial positive economics that he wants us to believe he's engaged in. Comment of the Week, 2003-04-30, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- I find the use of the term "uncontroversial" an odd and partisan choice in what would otherwise be a straightforward report. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
- In my judgment, the uncontroversial position of Mrs. Smith's son was not such as to cause her to fall foul of the principle set in Gough.
- She lasted so long at No 10 because she was uncontroversial and preferred to work quietly and keep a low profile. Times, Sunday Times
- So far, so fairly uncontroversial. Times, Sunday Times
- It's even easier to find uncontroversial typos, grammatical errors, malapropisms and other infelicities in unedited texts written by less skilled writers, or by writers in a hurry.
- The greater part of his analysis of the law is uncontroversial, indeed accepted by Mr Ponter.
- Unlike its recommendations on homosexual conduct, the section of the report that dealt with prostitution was largely uncontroversial.
- An uncontroversial role of §17 is to provide a characterization of an object, or more to the point, of a representation of an object, that facilitates a challenge to Humean associationism. Kant's Transcendental Arguments