Controvert is valid Scrabble Word

Is controvert a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is controvert valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTROVERT in dictionary:

VERB:

to oppose; to argue against; to dispute
deny the truth of (something)
argue about (something)
To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
be resistant to
prove to be false or incorrect

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to dispute or oppose by reasoning

Words related to CONTROVERT

controverted18 controverting19 controverts16

Words that contain CONTROVERT

controverts16 controverted18 controverter17 controverters18 controverting19 controvertist18 controvertible21 controvertibly24 controvertists19 uncontroverted20 incontrovertibl22 incontrovertible23 incontrovertibly26

How to use CONTROVERT in a sentence

It shocked him so much that, rather than admit its truth, he racked his brains in desperation to find arguments to controvert the blasphemy.
He endeavored to controvert atheism by rational arguments, while with passionate hatred and contemptuous wit he attacked positive Christianity and his persecutors, the priesthood.
In this department, it is still necessary to controvert the ordinary notion of the natural, with which poetry is altogether incompatible.
She had discovered that it was useless to controvert them, and generally listened with some pretence of patience.
So Austin went in to lunch thoughtful and dispirited, wondering why there were so many absurdities in life that he could neither elucidate nor controvert.
Once Eli had arrived at a conclusion his mind was closed to any line of reasoning that might tend to controvert that conclusion.
But now, though unable to controvert the logic of his assertion, he felt it told less than the whole truth.
He did not attempt to controvert what I said, but still asked where I was going.
If there be in it any statements or assumptions of facts which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them.
Atterson, for even testimony of witnesses who heard the discussion between the dead man and the real estate agent, could not controvert a written instrument.

Having had occasion to controvert this opinion of his, as to the degeneracy of animals there, I expressed a doubt of the fact assumed, that our climates are more moist.
That is the position you have got to controvert, if you are seriously to weaken the argument in favour of an international language.
My object is to explain the views actually held by the leaders of the Indian Mahomedan community, rather than to endorse or to controvert them.
Not a single attempt was made either by the Viceroy in the chair or by other representatives of Government to controvert either Mr.
This latter point I shall not controvert at present.
All that he attempted was hypothesis, which he invited us to controvert.
This he proved by a statement of figures, and although Sheridan attempted to controvert his statements, they could not be proved fallacious.
General Grant did not controvert, nor can I say that he admitted, this last statement.
Dispute the rules, controvert the application, or give your hands to this salutary measure.
They discussed facts impersonally, dispassionately, and what Sylvia had assumed, her old friend could not controvert.
That interpretation will controvert the very spirit and purpose of the principle stated.
We must now notice the passages which have been supposed to controvert the account we have given of the completion of the canal between the Nile and the Red Sea.
Far be it from me to controvert these views, if any one likes to hold them.
Radcliffe, and all his fellow-devotees of science, to controvert it.
I controvert all these propositions, and shall proceed at once to my argument.

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