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Meaning of noncontroversy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Lack of controversy.
    uncountable
  2. Something that is not controversial, especially one that someone is trying to make seem like a controversy.
    countable

Examples

“Therefore, to tread the line between quality on the one hand and noncontroversy on the other is to tread a very thin line.”
“In case the public was not ready for this indictment of the United States presence, the narrative style at least bred familiarity and noncontroversy.”
“We wanted a religion of peace and serenity and noncontroversy and refuge from the world.”
“One might ask Father Greeley to explain to those whose intellectual freedom has been limited in the name of orthodoxy, how they were involved in a "noncontroversy."”
“I see this as a noncontroversy. I think that the issue here is the variation in inherited degree of susceptibility, and I think that would be accepted by both of you.”
“We can easily imagine how Hunter would have described people like Mitt Romney (I'm guessing he would have reached for "depraved scumsucking whore" pretty early in his coverage) and Rick Santorum ("screeching rectum-faced celibate"?) and all you have to do is look at his write-up of the Eagleton affair to see how this writer would have responded to whatever manufactured noncontroversy of the Bill Ayers/Reverend Wright genus ends up rocking the 2012 election season.”
“We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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