excite controversy

Frequency: 5.84.5 per million words

to cause strong feelings of disagreement

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Examples (10)

  • The artist's new work is designed to excite controversy.
  • The Prime Minister's speech excited considerable controversy in the press.
  • The decision to build the new motorway has excited much controversy among local residents.
  • This new policy will undoubtedly excite controversy when it's announced.
  • Publishing the sensitive documents was a move calculated to excite political controversy.
  • His goal was simply to excite controversy and get noticed.
  • The paper's radical thesis was bound to excite controversy within the scientific community.
  • His latest column is exciting controversy for its views on immigration.
  • A statement like that could easily excite controversy and should be avoided.
  • Did the film director intend to excite so much controversy with his final scene?