"controversial" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

controversial adjetivo

controversial + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 208
controversial issue • controversial decision • controversial figure • controversial film • controversial topic • controversial subject • ...
verbo + controversial
Kolokacji: 6
prove controversial • consider controversial • become controversial • deem controversial • remain controversial • ...
adverbio + controversial
Kolokacji: 18
most controversial • highly controversial • somewhat controversial • extremely controversial • particularly controversial • ...
(2) highly, extremely, intensely
Kolokacji: 3
(3) somewhat, fairly
Kolokacji: 2
2. fairly controversial = dość kontrowersyjny fairly controversial
  • The Act was fairly controversial at the time, as the British people were suspicious of Prince Albert and he was generally unpopular in Parliament.
  • The building's height was fairly controversial at the time.
  • The paragraph IV certification proved to be fairly controversial in the efforts to get the bill passed.
  • You staked out a fairly controversial position in the wake of Sept. 11, didn't you?
  • He presented a fairly controversial argument that since he was interested in teenage boys, he should be entitled to pornographic material relating to his sexual interests.
  • LEO: In fact, that's a fairly controversial issue because law enforcement currently doesn't need a search warrant to ask for that information.
  • This Commission proposal to reform consumer protection has met with a fairly controversial reception.
  • On the other hand, flexibility, of which the value and necessity are fairly controversial, is systematically overestimated.
  • The Society was opposed to Euroscepticism, committed to electoral reform and open to green ideas, all of which were fairly controversial on the left at the time.
  • Mr. Cook is a scholar of Islamic history and was co-author, in the 1970's, of a fairly controversial theory about Islam's origins.
(4) particularly, especially
Kolokacji: 2
controversial + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
controversial in • controversial for • controversial among • controversial with • controversial at • ...

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