What's the difference between contentious and controversal?
Contentious
Definition:
(a.) Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.
(a.) Relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.
(a.) Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Republicans remain wary of a contentious debate on the divisive issue, which could anger their core voters and undercut potential electoral gains in the November elections when control of Congress will be at stake.
(2) How to administer the fund is another contentious area.
(3) They make a big deal when it happens, and then they forget.” The use of sarin has been highly contentious throughout the Syrian war.
(4) The election in the capital of the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation has been deeply contentious.
(5) I can only say, we want to do more in terms of research and we obviously want to support our scientists.” NCRIS is not specifically mentioned in the contentious higher education bill that the Senate will debate next week.
(6) I’ve never had a black person or a brown person ever say anything bad about me.” Then he proceeded to make fresh contentious comments, first by repeating the comparison between slavery and welfare dependence: “Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?
(7) Garcia, who sought to interview all 22 executive committee members who made the contentious decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar but found some who are no longer in football beyond his reach, delivered his report this month.
(8) The Jedwabne massacre and Kaminski's line that "Jews should say sorry for killing Poles" during the second world war is by far the most important of the many contentious issues on this man.
(9) Samuel Wurzelbacher, who became famous during the 2008 election as “Joe the Plumber” after he had a heated discussion with Obama on the campaign trail, was championed by presidential nominee John McCain but later made contentious remarks such as a call to “put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shooting”.
(10) Southern said on Tuesday it would reinstate travel passes for staff and allow them to swap shifts, reversing two contentious moves following strike action.
(11) Meanwhile, MPs in Athens approved the contentious reforms and austerity package demanded by its creditors amid angry scenes in parliament and violent clashes on the streets on Wednesday.
(12) Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano, has resigned, formally setting off what will be a contentious election to replace him.
(13) There is a growing conviction that medical technologies are major contributors to escalating costs, and regulating them is generally viewed as the least contentious way to control expenses in the 1980's.
(14) The contentious position is set to be waved into the final EU negotiating position by consensus.
(15) But this later proved contentious because the reserve appeared to preclude any resettlement of the atolls by islanders whose families had been evicted in 1965 to make way for a giant US air force base.
(16) The treasurer Joe Hockey has hinted the government might be prepared to shift ground on its insistence that a crucial $150m research funding extension hinges on the passage of contentious legislation to deregulate university fees.
(17) Business rates have long been a contentious issue among retailers, who argue the system penalises high street premises and unfairly benefits online retailers.
(18) Osborne also envisages “demonstrating the concept” of safe fracking by “focusing on a small number of sites in less contentious locations” including “public sector land (particularly MOD owned)”.
(19) Trump is an isolationist so the Chinese are going to see that as an opportunity to keep strengthening their position and their role in the region.” Delury said Trump was also likely to ditch the highly contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which under Obama had been “a centrepiece of an American resurgence of its role in Asia”.
(20) Political distortion And in all of this, Brooks consistently injected a highly contentious political ideology into the arteries of public debate, a toxic cocktail of crude populism and intellectual confusion.
Controversal
Definition:
(a.) Turning or looking opposite ways.
(a.) Controversial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The treatment of posttraumatic (and postoperative) cerebral edema is described controversally in the literature.
(2) Different findings and theories have been published in the literature with regard to the mechanisms of mineralization, many of which are controversely discussed.
(3) The problem of whether or not oral contraceptives affect the psychic function of the female is still controversal.
(4) The etiology of the disease is unknown, and therapy is discussed controversely in literature.
(5) The importance of EEG findings regarding prognosis of therapy and relapses of epilepsies is controversally discussed in the literature.
(6) One aspect of using MAO-inhibitors - combining them with tricyclic antidepressants in the treatment of therapy resistant depression - has always been controversely discussed in regard to its unusual toxicity and efficacy.
(7) The question whether tracheotomy would be of use or not was highly controversal in the following centuries.
(8) Other studies specify predictive factors of poor response to neuroleptics, as few affective symptoms and presence of negative symptoms--a controversed factor.
(9) Controversely, patients with a short duration of carrier state (6-12 months) showed positive local gvh reaction, similar to the range of the healthy subjects.
(10) Controversally to Kant, Fichte established I and non-I as a subject-object relationship.
(11) Hyporeninism is a controversed feature in hypopituitarism.
(12) As the validity of such procedure is still a controversal matter and in order to obtain direct epidemiological evidence, a case-control study about radon and lung cancer was set-up in southern Belgium.
(13) Furthermore, the data which have been provided are controversal and, in particular, a hyperkinetic status has been found only by some authors.
(14) The results of this investigation are controversal in relation to the reports in the literature of the last two decades.
(15) In surgery, risk research is of great importance at the present time but is controversely discussed with contradictory definitions, calculations and applications.
(16) This observation may contribute to the controversion regarding the cell origin of this unique leukemia associated with t(4:11), lymphatic versus null cell, early myeloid, or mixed, and points to the possibility of a very early B-cell lineage leukemia.
(17) With regard to the treatment of basal encephaloceles there still exists a lot of controversion, but most authors agree that it is better to postpone operation until after the age of three because mortality is lower then.
(18) In controversion to the meanings you can find in the literature that ascorbic acid is most one of the important drugs to interfere with laboratory results we couldn't see in our systematical experimental investigation such results.
(19) The demonstration of gap-junctions on frog atria muscle similar to those described on mammalian myocardium has been controversed.
(20) Because controverse interpretations of mechanisms in the energy metabolism in the stressed phase of the organism after traumata aso.