Crossword-Solution: CONTROVERT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Controvert | v. t. | To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “CONTROVERT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DISPUTE truth of | 1 answer |
| disconfirm | 3 answers |
| Deny the truth of | 4 answers |
| Oppugn | 6 answers |
| Rebut | 12 answers |
| Disprove | 14 answers |
| Litigate | 18 answers |
| confute | 21 answers |
| Gainsay | 29 answers |
| militate | 33 answers |
| Contradict | 45 answers |
| Negate | 45 answers |
| call in question | 46 answers |
| Deny | 58 answers |
| Argue | 58 answers |
| Confound | 59 answers |
| Oppose | 64 answers |
| Encounter | 66 answers |
| Fall out | 68 answers |
| Debate | 69 answers |
| Chal-lenge | 70 answers |
| Agitate | 70 answers |
| COUNTER ___ | 77 answers |
| demur | 79 answers |
| Dispute | 82 answers |
| Quarrel | 96 answers |
| BREAK ___ | 105 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTROVERT (5)
For all thou dost and hast done to blight and curse the nobleness of his nature, I have done and shall continue to do all in my power to controvert.
That they survived Christ is manifest upon record of Scripture: that they outlived the apostles also, and were revived at the conversion of nations, many years after, we cannot deny, if we shall not question those writers whose testimonies we do not controvert in points that make for our own opinions: therefore, that may have some truth in it, that is reported by the Jesuits of their miracles in the Indies.
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
The mutinousness of passion will sometimes excite a child to question the decrees of his parent; it is very long before his understanding, as such, comes to set up a separate system, and teaches him to controvert the decisions of his father.
Indeed, whenever an Englishman does break fresh ground in this direction, he rarely finds sufficient presence of mind to controvert the suggestions of the smiling minister who, having spotted his Inglese, at once marks down an omelette aux fines herbes and a biftek aux pommes as the only food such a creature can consume.
Quotes with CONTROVERT (1)
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.