controversial

1. (now rare) Someone or something (such as a matter or an argument) that is controversial.Examples: "No fundamental doctrine was omitted. Controversials were carefully avoided. Whether any blessing attended these attempts, will be known at the last day."; "Blowing like a blast of fresh astringent air into the hot-house atmosphere of these vapid languors, came news from America of a Rational Dress Campaign. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer’s conspicuous controversials were a wonderful gift to Punch, and were welcomed with enthusiasm and joyful derision by the cartoonists […]"; "Napoleon’s a pastry / Get this under your brow / All those big wig controversials / Are all commercials now."archaic