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Simple sentences
It is questionable whether this data can be relied on.
I've done questionable things.
She is a tender girl of questionable morals.
Colloquial language is not necessarily a grammatical and stylistic questionable form of expression. There is no doubt a cultivated variety of it which I really find to my liking.
The behaviour of many people is questionable.
Tom made some questionable choices.
Their honesty is questionable.
My bank statement is also a visual record of questionable decisions.
I have just modified the questionable sentence.
I think this is extremely questionable.
It's a questionable policy.
The evidence is questionable.
It's no surprise to anyone that most pet food contains questionable ingredients.
Movie subtitles
It is a fact that you have been away from work without an excused absence, that you have frequented and behaved scandalously in questionable taverns and further, that you have harassed highly esteemed citizens of the community.
Inciting a riot, questionable character.
Yes. To the magistrate tomorrow. For inciting a riot, questionable character.
Any questionable decisions will be left either to the Reverend Mother or to me.
Yes, I felt a cold coming on. so I denied myself the always questionable pleasure of dining. with that arch-arguer Roger Hinchley and decided to come back to bed.
And in questionable taste.
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, thou comest in such a questionable shape. that I will speak to thee.
If he commits questionable acts, the explanation must be elsewhere.
For a daughter to borrow a mother's lover is in questionable taste.
Germaine, if the gentleman never existed, how could it be in questionable taste?
My informant has developed instabilities which make his judgement questionable.
Having tea parties on the ceiling and highly questionable outings of every other kind!
The way they act is questionable but they're putting their lives at stake.
Some of the doctor's medical theories may be questionable, but he is absolutely great on curses.
Mr. Barreau. At the dress rehearsal, which involved a number of people, some of whom may have questionable characters, did anyone see you bring the money to the victim?
For inciting a riot, questionable character.
Knowing the girl is of questionable reputation he seeks her out to ask her to stay away from you, and to remonstrate against her bad behaviour.
It has been spared the sensational publicity of such questionable honors as the Pulitzer Prize and those awards presented annually by that film society.
It may be a questionable compliment, but I did not suspect you, even though Maria visited you tonight.
Men who are engaged in questionable enterprises.
My questionable honour, sir.
A questionable favour, bringing such a car!
He's a drinker, a carouser, and i have it on good authority that his relationships with his students are questionable at best.
Of course, it's questionable at best as to what concrete results we can expect, but at least, the seeds have been planted; the opening guns fired; the first attack rendered.
Have you by any chance spent the night with questionable girls?
This man might have had a questionable past.
I found the mission questionable, and the profit laughable.
This is, this is questionable.
I ask you. Having tea parties on the ceiling and highly questionable outings of every other kind!
Your candor is refreshing, Mr. Perry, even if your judgement of character is somewhat questionable.
I don't believe it is my behavior that is questionable here.
Personally, I find the lady's taste questionable.
The somewhat questionable merit isn't yours, no.
I tell them to be careful, not to get involved with questionable friendships.
We looked at the list of passengers with questionable past and uncertain future.
I've done. questionable things.
No, he is questionable!
It is questionable if we can proceed. I'm cooler than you are.
News and current affairs
The new plan relies on a questionable mix of dubious financial-engineering gimmicks and vague promises of modest Asian funding.
But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.
In light of experience, the view that the financial system is only exceptionally unstable or on an unsustainable path seems at least questionable.
The US wanted the Chinese money, but it was not prepared to offer anything more than structured securities of questionable creditworthiness, as well as government paper that is now clearly exposed to the risk of inflation and devaluation.
In the eurozone, however, QE is a questionable response to such calls.
Our opinion, released in May 1995, deemed food safety a fundamental ethical imperative and called for barring the commercialization of questionable products.
Such differences are questionable not only in terms of fairness; they are also economically inefficient, because they tend to limit labor mobility across firms and sectors.
Tolerance of questionable dealing today for the sake of political expediency will cost more in the future for us all.
Data collection for the MDGs was patchy, and the quality of much of the information collected was questionable.
The idea that controlled tightening is easier in a more centrally planned economy, where policymakers must rely on far noisier market signals, is highly questionable.
Moreover, a major argument in favor of inflation targeting - that it has contributed to a decline in inflation since the early 1990s - is questionable, at best.
Moreover, the justice of the distribution of risks and benefits is questionable when research subjects are concentrated on a vulnerable segment of our society.
Public debt is already high, and many sovereigns are near distress, so governments' ability to backstop their banks via more bailouts, guarantees, and ring-fencing of questionable assets is severely constrained.
Germany's Economics Minister, Michael Glos, has said that Russia's questionable dependability means that the time has come to explore other energy sources.
On a purely technical basis, the renminbi's qualifications for inclusion in the SDR basket are questionable.
The extended and politicized debate about debt restructuring has made a Hamiltonian solution more difficult, because the credit of the countries that would be party to it has become questionable.
Victims of UAV attacks, their families, and civil-society groups have begun to speak out against America's questionable drone campaign, and to pursue legal action.
Yet Russia's future is questionable.
Furthermore, budget support that's linked to national poverty-reduction strategies also rests on the questionable assumption that the political economy of a partner country works to the benefit of the poorest.
Second, protectionists have developed populist but logically questionable arguments that agricultural staples cannot be treated as tradable commodities subject to competition.
But America's questionable means of satisfying its legitimate security concerns are certainly less damaging for Europe in the long run than is Chinese industrial espionage.
Yet, as long as Assad's forces can attack opposition-controlled neighborhoods with helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes, the opposition's ability to overthrow the regime with the arms that are now available to it seems questionable.
Arab countries, already questionable allies in the war against fellow Muslims in Afghanistan, will be even less reliable in a war against fellow Arabs.
Patil, on the other hand, is a controversial figure, with questionable qualifications.
So, although the strategic value of closer military ties with Pakistan seems highly questionable, Saudi Arabia has little choice.
Certainly some of the outraged reaction by Japan's neighbors is of questionable sincerity.
Both his political legitimacy and religious authority are highly questionable, and the street violence and prison brutality of recent months has undermined his authority and shaken his social base.
Everyone has secrets: love affairs, substance-abuse problems, mental-health diagnoses, heterodox sexual preferences, or questionable discussions with accountants.