Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a controversial manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a controversial manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
controversial manner; due tocontroversy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb involving controversy
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Examples
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Antonio Rattin controversially was sent off and England went on to post a 1-0 victory.
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According to Esquire's Scott Raab — whom you may recall controversially reported on the zombie scourge in Newark last year — Mr. Cramer was not unlike young Chas Tenenbaum from Wes Anderson's 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums.
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According to Esquire's Scott Raab — whom you may recall controversially reported on the zombie scourge in Newark last year — Mr. Cramer was not unlike young Chas Tenenbaum from Wes Anderson's 2001 movie The Royal Tenenbaums.
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The five-times World Cup winners booked their last 16 berth on Sunday with an impressive win over Sven-Goran Eriksson's Ivory Coast, but had star midfielder Kaka controversially sent off for a second yellow card.
The Times of India 2010
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Steam has removed some Ubisoft-published games from the the UK store recently, namely the controversially DRM-infested
bit-tech.net Feed 2010
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According to Esquire's Scott Raab-whom you may recall controversially reported on the zombie scourge in Newark last year-Mr.
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France calls controversially for coordinated EU economic policies
EUnews 2008
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And I think that now that the trial has -- you know, there's been so many happy coincidences with all this -- now that the trial has really exploded, and kind of controversially, but it also exploded his popularity.
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The Soft Pack, a San Diego band who "controversially" called themselves the Muslims until they wussed out, aim for the Strokes but fall somewhere short of Fountains of Wayne.
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The Soft Pack, a San Diego band who "controversially" called themselves the Muslims until they wussed out, aim for the Strokes but fall somewhere short of Fountains of Wayne.
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