Controversial in example sentence

But the play’s depiction of Athens’ conduct during the Peloponnesian War was so controversial that afterwards, a politician named Kleon took Aristophanes to court for "slandering the people of Athens in the presence of foreigners."

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I was troubled that the retrieval of organs from executed prisoners was at least as morally controversial as the harvesting of stem cells from human embryos.

And in time, my views went from controversial to more or less consensus today.

When this result was first published, it was highly controversial.

And they both involve controversial deaths.

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