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Synonyms for contested
con·test·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
contestedadjective
disputed or made the object of contention or competition
"a contested election"
Antonyms:
uncontested
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "contested":
challenged, impugned, disputed, attacked, contentious, litigious, questioned, controversial, contestée, assaulted, objected, refuted, appealed
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9520 | controversial | |
#9940 | attacked | |
#9958 | challenged | |
#12049 | questioned | |
#16941 | appealed | |
#17797 | disputed | |
#19971 | contested | |
#26097 | objected | |
#27806 | contentious | |
#29675 | assaulted | |
#49285 | refuted | |
#84984 | litigious | |
#104876 | impugned |
How to use contested in a sentence?
You can't win the nomination writing off the most diverse states, that is a big message from tonight. For better or worse, they only contested five of the 11 states and the ones they effectively ceded happen to be the most diverse.
It is an abuse which has been compounded by the manner in which the father has contested these allegations and instructed his lawyers. Despite the weight of evidence, the fact of hacking was never conceded, nor was the fact that such hacking had been by Pegasus.
The narrative that Courtney Irby went to Joseph Irby Lakeland apartment to get the guns to protect Courtney Irby and Courtney Irby children is false, while some have desperately tried to make this case about guns, folks on both sides of the issues have missed the real issue in this case : This is a case of a highly contested divorce action that has escalated to the point of both the husband and the wife being charged with crimes.
We don't feel we should be removing contested claims even when we believe they may be false, there are a lot of concepts being tested because we don't know what is going to work.
Mexican Trade Minister Ildefonso Guajardo:
They are few but very contested.
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