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was problematical
adjective
Doubtful or disputed
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Beds were flat, not raised, because managing the sides of raised beds was problematical.
The restoration of the festival was problematical, and not just financially.
What had been adequate in 1937 was problematical in the nineteen-fifties.
He said Medco's five-year contract with Merck, disclosed in its government filings, was problematical for its future business.
As he put it, "Everything was problematical": the locomotive that had to be transported to the Montana location from a Denver museum; a horse-drawn buggy whose spokes and upholstery had to be made in different states.
Here the Circle appealed to a meaning criterion the correct formulation of which was problematical and much debated (and will be discussed in greater detail in section 3.1 below).
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It may prove to be problematical.
Bombing in the ruggedly mountainous countryside is problematical.
National labels are problematical because words move easily from one branch of the language to another.
But obtaining material from them in advance by mail is problematical.
Whether Austin can rein in the powerful economic and social forces at work is problematical.
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