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disputable — I adjective admitting of doubt, ambiguous, apocryphal, appealing to reason, arguable, arguing, argumentative, at issue, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, cryptic, debatable, deniable, disputatious, doubtable,… … Law dictionary
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