Word Finder - dubious

definition

(of a statement) Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.

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After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.

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(of a person) In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.

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She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.

Steve tells Catherine he wants to plead manslaughter on grounds of temporary insanity, but she looks dubious about the idea.

The little priest rose with a distinctly dubious grimace.

The use of cluster bombs seems morally dubious.

But it has a very dubious right to the name.

Time-honoured custom had hitherto reckoned primogeniture in the male line as the best 'title to the Russian crown; in the ustav of 1722 Peter denounced primogeniture in general as a stupid, dangerous, and even unscriptural practice of dubious origin.

The sudden death of the duchess, attributed on dubious evidence to poison, left her unprovided for, but the king placed her among the ladies in waiting of his own queen.

It added a somewhat dubious moral structure to the game.

Senor Medena's dubious gaze touched on Carmen, Alondra and Alex – and then went back to Alondra.

Canada now has the dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in the Western world.

In particular be careful of second hand equipment; it could be flawed or from a dubious source.

In fact, leggings enjoy the dubious distinction of being one of the few garments that is both loved and loathed equally.

He began by selling some of his numerous mystery novels on a book finder's web site, then expanded to garage sale scouring for items of dubious value.

That dubious accolade goes to the nearby city of Durham.

This way, no political parties will have to depend on donations, dubious loans or alleged bribery for their election activities.

It's mainly mail art stuff, wacky scans, stupid art and general chicanery of a dubious nature.

Is a dubious increase in reading comprehension worth rubbing the nation's primary school teachers the wrong way?

Since 1964, Ireland has had the dubious distinction of being the most heavily fluoridated country in Europe.

To pay off front-panel headphone jack such dubious injuries.

But I just may hold the dubious honor of the all time greatest moment in club breaking history.

Can this dubious character be the one to lift Alice out of the depths of her social ineptitude?

For too long students have had their deposit's withheld by unscrupulous landlords, often on dubious grounds.

In order to pay for his government he had to collect all sorts of taxes that were of dubious legality.

It is a creation of Western colonialism and is governed by people with somewhat dubious legitimacy.

What is dubious is for pre-payments, loans and expenditure to keep turning one into the other in a sort of perpetual merry-go-round.

The fact that many Orthodox ' leaders ' lived lives of dubious morality is not of importance.

We discuss how this has left consultants as serial fad peddlers, perhaps with more influence but delivering dubious genuine benefit.

Here there was a chorus from my research team about the dubious pleasures of actually getting to and from most salons.

When Jackass arrived in Blighty Russell was afforded the dubious privilege of promoting it for MTV UK.

In a world awash in information of dubious provenance, whom can you trust to tell you the truth?

Then again robbed by a dubious penalty at Highbury Pompey played out a 1-1 draw with the mighty Arsenal.

I was dubious of whether I needed a shim but after fitting this heatsink I concluded that it is not needed.

If huge swaths of the book are wrong, or even dubious, then none of the rest can be assumed to be correct.

Some books on being a witch seem trivial, more about fashion than faith, slightly dubious.

Critics within journalism believe that some external regulation might be necessary to curtail dubious professional behavior and regain public trust.

The soldier emperors were understandably unhappy at having a large minority of dubious loyalty in the threatened provinces of the east.

To the Layman, this argument seems of dubious veracity because there have not been any cases of bits falling off.

Of these three, one can definitely be cast by the wayside and at least one other is of dubious value.

She has the dubious honor of being the only female werewolf in the world.

Based on material borrowed from the Sachsische Weltchronik (formerly called Repgowische Chronik from its dubious assignment to Eime von Repgow), the oldest prose chronicle of the world in German (c. 1248 or 1260).

Of Cartesianism towards the close of the 17th century the only remnants were an overgrown theory of vortices, which received its death-blow from Newton, and a dubious phraseology anent innate ideas, which found a witt y executioner in Locke.

This document annulled the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges, with its schismatic tendencies, but at the same time confirmed the preponderating influence of the king upon the Gallican Church - a concession which in spite of its many dubious aspects at least made the sovereign the natural defender of the Church and gave him the strongest motive for remaining Catholic. The war for the duchy of Urbino (1516-17) entailed disastrous consequences, as from it dates the complete disorganization of papal finance.

Their intervention was prompt; and the dubious attitude of France, which led to her exclusion from the concert and encouraged Mehemet Ali to resist, only led to his obtaining less favorable terms. (See MEHEMET Au.)

Now half the adverts on TV are for dubious products and behaviors touted by self-styled experts.

The whole unwieldy structure is sustained by three main procedures each of which seems to me highly dubious.

The upshot of this discussion is that Vermes has amassed dubious evidence for the interpretation of this Qumran text.

When I heard about Cover Girl LashBlast mascara, I was dubious at best.

Regardless of the dubious legality of many online TV options, just like with music and game downloads, it seems unlikely that free online television programs are going to go away.

He has the dubious distinction of being the only character not on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as well as the only human character on the show.

Overcrowding is the norm, not the exception, and the quality and quantity of food and water available is dubious at best.

While this might sound a dubious claim, it's actually quite true - especially if you consider just how difficult it can be to work out in anything other than the most comfortable clothing.