Definition of "controverting" []

• Present participle of controvert. (verb)

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• "America propaganda ... into the bouillabaisse of lies, stir in well-crafted bogeymen, along with heaping portions of distraction, envy, selfishness — and double-up on aversion to being different (who wants to be "... the turd in the punch bowl" by controverting what we are officially supposed to believe?)"
• "It is a very commendable zeal; but we must avoid controverting their antiquity, and also calling them idolaters."
• "Miss Pecksniff controverting this opinion as sinful, Moddle was goaded on to ask whether she could be contented with a blighted heart; and it appearing on further examination that she could be, plighted his dismal troth, which was accepted and returned."