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Common collocations with emotive in American Collocation

emotive adjective

US /ɪˈmoʊtɪv/

deeply
extremely
highly
particularly
powerfully
very

Both writers and actors have handled the highly emotive subject with sensitivity.

subject

issue
subject
topic

The use of animals in medical research is an emotive issue.

word/words

argument
expression
language
phrase
rhetoric
term
word

The debate will certainly not be advanced by the use of emotive language.