Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With some possibility of dispute; with less certainty; questionably.

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  • adverb In a disputable manner.

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Examples

  • Not even pariah states like Iran do … not even flaky ‘outlaw’ states like North Korea … not even disputably recognized miasmic statiods like (so-called) ‘Palestine’ …

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » How Is This Different From Citizens United 2010

  • Second thing I'll treasure will be Wade's keen player management: taking disputably the best group of players in the NFL, Bill Parcells' masterpiece, and turning them into a 1-7 situational dramedy.

    Dallas week: the battle for the bottom Evan Bliss 2010

  • The Pedaliante (Italian for “Pedal Glider”) was a human-powered aircraft designed and built by Enea Bossi and Vittorio Bonomi and disputably credited with, in 1936, performing the first fully human-powered flight.

    The Flight of the Pedaliante « Skid Roche 2008

  • The Pedaliante (Italian for “Pedal Glider”) was a human-powered aircraft designed and built by Enea Bossi and Vittorio Bonomi and disputably credited with, in 1936, performing the first fully human-powered flight.

    The Flight of the Pedaliante « Skid Roche 2008

  • If you have man-hands, the 360 controller is un-disputably superior.

    Shadow Wireless PS3 controllers move around sticks - SlipperyBrick.com 2009

  • But to coax the man outside, where a crowd might well gather, and where a continuation of the professor's tirade would (disputably) justify an arrest?

    Norm Stamper: Let's All Have a Beer and Talk Police Work 2009

  • Finland is NOT Nordic: the language is related to the Siberian languages; it was disputably a Soviet client-state until 1991; and the Finns' intense quietness is very different from the more confident Norse.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • Phoshi: I like the space that tabs-on-top saves (disputably), but one major problem with them being built into the title bar is when I double click the blank space to make a new tab (which I do 50/50 with ctrl+T), it resizes the window instead o_O

    First Look At Firefox 4.0 Design Mockups | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The Principle of Charity implies that the speaker's beliefs are predominantly like our own, and, more disputably, that they are predominantly true (Davidson 1984).

    Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006

  • WE have said already that Lady Helena was a brave, generous woman, and what she had just done proved it in-disputably.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

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