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dubious Adjective

— A dubious decision or opinion is one that you don't believe is honest, safe, or reliable. — If you are dubious about something, you are not sure if you should believe or trust it.

dubious

— adjective (= doubtful) fraught with uncertainty or doubt they were doubtful that the cord would hold it was doubtful whether she would be admitted dubious about agreeing to go — adjective (= doubtful, dubitable) open to doubt or suspicion the candidate's doubtful past he has a dubious record indeed what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought — Karen Horney — adjective not convinced they admitted the force of my argument but remained dubious

Synonyms dubious synonyms

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doubtful suspicious uncertain questionable shady equivocal ambiguous vague suspect skeptical shaky precarious obscure incredulous dubitable unsure unclear problematic in question iffy disreputable disputable debatable wavering unsteady unstable unsettled unreliable unpromising undetermined undertermined underhanded underhand undefined unde-cided uncertainty tricky treacherous sinister seedy sceptical risky reluctant random queer problematical of unknown authenticity odd mistrustful left-handed

Topics dubious topics

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Suspect

What words describe something that makes you suspect someone?

suspicious suspect (adj) fishy dubious questionable

Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Don't think so, doubt it

What words indicate that you think it is very unlikely that something is true or will happen?

don't think doubt be doubtful be dubious I'd be surprised if I think not I wouldn't have thought so

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Simple sentences

I'm dubious about claims to speak more than five languages fluently.

Tom has a dubious reputation.

Mary is a woman of dubious virtue.

Tom is dubious.

Tom looks dubious.

Her attraction was dubious even after the second glass of wine.

Tom was dubious.

Their honesty is dubious.

He came back two hours later and received the same answer, accompanied by a rather dubious look from the footman.

Tom said that he was dubious.

There is a highly dubious award for particularly dog-hating acts.

Textbooks that claim otherwise sound dubious.

Let's not make dubious assumptions.

Movie subtitles

By the way, what is that dubious deserted house?

Professor Potts in the dining room with a conglomeration of dubious characters.

I just popped in to pay my dubious respects. and inquire as to the state of your health.

Now you're looking all dubious again.

Well, sir a free translation would be that Meacham's a yellow-bellied polecat of dubious antecedents and conjectural progeny.

But I must tell you in all honesty, I'm extremely dubious about the results.

I escaped death only through the intercess on of a lady of somewhat dubious reputation, and the cost of a handsome ring which once belonged to my mother.

I have dubious morals, you know.

Being dubious about other people's morals.

Even if you have dubious morals.

My position as a dubious father is influencing my scientific detachment.

Especially with these. dubious characteristics.

You participated in a dubious martial arts tournament.

A rather dubious honor when you consider that the accomplishment is predicated on the fact that you chose the wrong automobile.

It would appear then that my crew is still a little dubious. as to the merits of His Majesty's offer.

And you, my dear Pudding, squander it with dubious aristocrats like me.

I just popped in to pay my dubious respects and inquire as to the state of your health.

Left alone with myself to avoid dubious company!

A dubious a recommendation if you ask me.

Well, sir a translation would be that Meacham's a yellow-bellied polecat of dubious antecedents and conjectural progeny.

I've decided that the formula is the most dubious discovery since itching powder.

Highly dubious conception, even theoretically in the remotest so common in industrial automation.

Frightened because I'm a success by the dubious route of inheritance.

I'm off. It's dubious.

I cannot see, sir, any evidence to support your highly dubious contention that the propeller should be installed in the front.

Gudule had a gift for making a good stew out of the most dubious ingredients.

I know you wouldn't seek out such friendships, but these women of dubious reputation often seek out the company of respectable women out of a sort of nostalgia for virtue.

Me talking to Mars won't affect this dubious, Lin.

Your spying, your. dubious way of inviting girls and then. this even more dubious place.

I know you sent Matilde away due to Peppino's dubious behavior.

Wherever there is one resentful bourgeois, one unreliable schoolmaster one dubious poet hugging his private life.

News and current affairs

The new plan relies on a questionable mix of dubious financial-engineering gimmicks and vague promises of modest Asian funding.

Recently, the United States achieved the dubious honor of boasting the largest prison and jail population on earth.

Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.

Experts would remind us that Kazakhstan had never been a country, and that Ukrainian claims to independence are historically dubious.

But the overall impact of ODA remains dubious.

However dubious Bush's actions may have been on both counts, interest rates on US public debt actually fell.

Even macroprudential regulation is of dubious value: supervisors should confine themselves to overseeing individual institutions, leaving macro-level policy to the grownups.

Commercial television programs aimed at children are replete with advertising for processed foods of dubious value to human health.

Neglect of agriculture should, perhaps, have been expected in the government's rush to modernize; what was unexpected was the government's increasing reliance on dubious fiscal strategies.

But if parties are not state-supported, they must find funds through channels that are often dubious, when not illegal.

This theory is dubious for several reasons.

While both proposals have merit, whether they will be enough to stabilize our dangerously unstable financial systems is at best dubious.

Dubious harmonization and unification is in the pipeline in another area as well: macroeconomic performance.

Perhaps - but Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria are dubious; even more so the idea of Russia as part of this new Europe.

That logic is dubious, given how many similar crises have hit widely differing systems over the centuries.

Moreover, the American public's willingness to become enmeshed in yet another risky military venture, when boosting homeland security could suffice, is dubious, at best.

Given the dubious benefits of still lower real interest rates, placing central-bank credibility at risk would be irresponsible.

In view of these systemic weaknesses, China's ability to overcome its labor deficit by shifting to an innovation- and productivity-driven economy remains dubious.

Moreover, even if the political will to launch third-arrow structural reforms were suddenly to strengthen - a dubious proposition - any productivity payback would most likely take a long time to materialize.

And China's big banks have lent large sums, willingly or otherwise, to local governments for infrastructure projects - many of them of dubious economic value.

But some dubious assertions have, through constant repetition in recent, often breathless, accounts about the two economies, become part of conventional wisdom.

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