How To Use Doubtful In A Sentence

I doubt that Michelle Obama was surprised or dismayed by the boos at the Nascar rally: it's not surprising that the national doubtfulness about first ladies and the strong, accomplished women who are coming to hold the role would emerge in boos from some of the Obama administration's fiercest opponents. Michelle Obama's Nascar boos | Kay Dilday
I currently am in doubtful mode, but I am willing to see what comes of this mixture. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Gets Ready To SAW Audiences In October – Collider.com
It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
In November 1875, Sir Frederick Evans, newly appointed hydrographer of the British Navy, ordered 123 doubtful islands banished from Admiralty Chart 2683 of the Pacific Ocean. A Furnace Afloat
That which seemeth to me most likelie, I haue noted, beseeching the learned (as I trust they will) in such points of doubtfull antiquities to beare with my skill: sith for ought I know, the matter is not yet decided among the learned, but still they are in controuersie about it, and as yet Sub iudice lis est. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror

Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful.
Some claims for its benefits remain doubtful. Times, Sunday Times
It is doubtful whether the government will ever accede to the nationalists' demands for independence.
‘Some people might think it's a bit feminine,’ he says doubtfully.
He will be assessed by the England medical team but he looks doubtful. Times, Sunday Times
As given at Brunswick, in the last scene the Prophet, John of Leyden, is discovered at supper with some boon companions in rather doubtful female society. The Days Before Yesterday
Ravenscraig steelworks was supposed to feed strip steel to the Rootes assembly line at Linwood, Paisley, and a British Motor Corporation works at Bathgate, though the economics of both were doubtful.
I was doubtful of their success, but it was worth a try.
Remember also that most people, despite their confident appearance and demeanor, are often as scared as you are and as doubtful of themselves.
He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness: but he cometh to you with words sent in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. English literary criticism
With petrol prices low, it is highly unlikely he will heed their call, but also doubtful he will increase the tax after four years of freezes. Times, Sunday Times
The doubtfulness of it comes out, by the way, when it is noticed that this idea can make two items that are in a fundamental way absolutely identical into two different thoughts.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
The Chancellor made much of his clampdown on tax avoidance but, it is doubtful the outcome will live up to the hype. Times, Sunday Times
He looked very doubtful when I asked certain questions and laughed me to scorn when I gave my verdict.
I feel doubtful what I ought to do.
When the dealer has a choice of declarations, a sound heart make is to be preferred to a doubtful no-trump. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
He was doubtful about accepting extra work.
Certainly the sale of BT Wireless now looks doubtful.
Doubtful it may be, whether it should be called dimness of understanding, or rather perverse ingenuity, that men reason thus, when the facts are: So general is the disposition to abuse power, that wherever it is accumulated, it will surely be abused; accordingly it must be distributed as equally as possible. The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society
* Thus, in "The state was made, under the pretence of serving it, in reality the prize of their contention to each of these opposite parties," it is unpleasantly doubtful whether the writer means (1) _state_ or (2) _parties_ to be emphatic. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
The orthography is doubtful, but there is little question that a kind of bramble-bush is intended. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Some people insist on using only “natural” fibers, but “natural” is a term of doubtful meaning in this context as in so many others. HOME COMFORTS
Even with a more aggressive policy of positive discrimination, it is doubtful whether geographical inequalities can be overcome.
It is doubtful that he will come.
She had grown insecure and doubtful of herself.
It began to provide leisure facilities for its members, including rooms in the Queen Street headquarters for people who played bagatelle, billiards and ‘who wished to indulge in the doubtful activity of smoking’.
It is doubtful whether our younger generation can figure them out.
For a time it seemed doubtful that he would move at all.
For the first act the answer seemed doubtful. Times, Sunday Times
In bestowing the sovereignty on the King of Prussia, care was taken that he should confirm all the doubtful privileges of the people; for it is a fundamental maxim of this little state, "_that the sovereignty resides not in the person of the prince, but in the state_". A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
This is a doubtful battle.
It was a relief when my own friend was roundly acquitted of fake charges; but the doubtful double-think was tiring. Times, Sunday Times
Even with a more aggressive policy of positive discrimination, it is doubtful whether geographical inequalities can be overcome.
Upon evidence, licences will be taken from companies alleged of dealing with goods of doubtful and undeclared origin.
It is very doubtful whether, to an untried or a young man, the warnings of Solomon, or the outpourings of that griefful prophet whose name now passes for a lamentation, have done much good. Brave Men and Women
I was starting to feel a little doubtful of my previous thoughts, but wasn't completely sure either way.
Yet it seems doubtful that any court would let such an action succeed. Times, Sunday Times
Most local NGOs are dependent on donor funds; their sustainability without such funds is doubtful.
Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
He is equally doubtful of my assertion that the modern knowledge society can go on satisfying growing human wants, including our aspiration to preserve a liveable environment.
Nicholas hardly dared to look out of the window; but he did so, and the very first object that met his eyes was the wretched Smike: so bedabbled with mud and rain, so haggard and worn, and wild, that, but for his garments being such as no scarecrow was ever seen to wear, he might have been doubtful, even then, of his identity. Nicholas Nickleby
It is doubtful that trade suspension by Japan will lead to North Korea's collapse or deal it a severe blow, forcing it to yield and change its policy.
The ancients, who had a very faint and imperfect knowledge of the great peninsula of Africa, were sometimes tempted to believe, that the torrid zone must ever remain destitute of inhabitants; 126 and they sometimes amused their fancy by filling the vacant space with headless men, or rather monsters; 127 with horned and cloven-footed satyrs; 128 with fabulous centaurs; 129 and with human pygmies, who waged a bold and doubtful warfare against the cranes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
I looked doubtfully down at the bowl full of mush.
In doubtful cases microchemical reagents can be employed, using Professor Attfield's "Chemistry" as a guide. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
Poor Lilly, it is doubtful if she was by endowment more than a lovely melomaniac doomed never to emerge from her musical primaries. Star-Dust
Then I shook my head violently, trying to clear it of the doubtfulness that clouded it.
After she was told about the fierce competition in the modeling world in Jakarta, Nike, was briefly silent and seemed doubtful of her plans.
Periodical intense bombardments all along the line, any one of which might have been the preliminary to a great offensive, left the Germans doubtful as to where the real blow would fall.
His employment of the word zetetic is less doubtful, as he claims for his system that it alone is founded on the true seeking out of Nature's secrets. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
It may be that on that basis (though it is doubtful) the original award was merited.
He is also doubtful for the final group E game against Italy. Times, Sunday Times
Jenna shot a doubtful glance at the lumpy, brown couch in the corner of the room.
He was willing to work for Socialism, even to deliver lectures on it in draughty halls, and he knew that it was both necessary and inevitable, but it is doubtful whether he subjectively wanted it. As I Please
Don't manipulate the academic system on behalf of your child; it makes kids guilty and doubtful of their own ability.
Finally, I am very doubtful about the remaining three unassigned colors of “nattier”; “orchid”; and “veronese.” Archive 2009-05-01
But I am very doubtful about whether the ongoing debate, in the blogs and mailing lists and conferences, is actually taking us anywhere interesting.
So it is doubtful that he missed the nuance, as some more imperceptive political figures might. Yvette Carnell: The Method to Jesse Jackson's Madness
As Benacerraf and Putnam (1964) have observed, the acknowledgement that supertasks are possible has a profound influence on the philosophy of mathematics: the notion of truth (in arithmetic, say) would no longer be doubtful, in the sense of dependent on the particular axiomatisation used. Supertasks
My subject is a very broad one, and I will not try to cover all of it, but I will be satisfied if my remarks convince any doubtful ones here that flying in the air is not equivalent to making a nonreturn trip. British Aviation in War and Peace
It is doubtful whether all the ministers or other public men and officials have been submitting mandatory annual statements of their income and assets to the government.
It was clear that she was doubtful of our ability to win, as well.
It is extremely doubtful that anyone survived the explosion.
Eric the Red, "the only doubtful part of which is the" uniped "episode, a touch of mediaeval superstition so palpable as not to be deceptive. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
The influence of syphilis, except in its gummatous form, in interfering with union is doubtful. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
Troostite is of doubtful composition, but possibly is an unstable mixture of untransformed martensite with sorbite. The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
Some British banks have used doubtful property revaluations to improve their capital ratios.
All doubtfulness vanish after the testimony of the key witness.
He deserves to be a finalist but it is doubtful that he will savour the experience on the other side of the net from Nadal. Times, Sunday Times
As the truth is generally found to be fumewhere about in th« niddle between two oppofiie extremes, we think ihofe in grneril approach, neareA to it, who checking the impetuofiry of theic Wifhes, and doubtful of the force of reafoning unaided by ex - pcrinientil i £ts, prorie-d with a cautious difE'. cnce in ihtir rr - The Monthly Review
In Australia there has been some recent experimentation with catalogue formats such as "Slim Jims" and "magalogues" but it is doubtful that too many will continue long term.
Preliminary Discourse, pp.xix. lxv. thought, about the seventh century, but was derived, it is claimed, from a more ancient work. 5 The book entitled "Revelations of Ardai Viraf" exists in Pehlevi probably of the fourth century, according to Troyer,6 and is believed to have been originally written in the Avestan tongue, though this is extremely doubtful. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The much-bruited idea that Basel rules will make the world freer of financial crises is highly doubtful, given current political circumstances. Other Comments
It is doubtful if there will ever be a conclusive judgement about colonialism.
Yet it seems doubtful that any court would let such an action succeed. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone was doubtful at first, but his statement in detail held up.
This makes me very doubtful concerning the numberings of the Roman people, at the time when their empire extended just four leagues from the Tarpeian rock, and they carried a handful of hay at the end of a pole for a standard. A Philosophical Dictionary
The unfortunate householder, for example, who is persuaded to keep walking in the conservatory "pour retablir la circulation," and the other who describes himself "sous-chef de bureau dans l'enregistrement," and he who proposes to "faire hommage" of a doubtful turbot to the neighbouring "employe de l'octroi" -- these and all their like speak commonplaces so usual as to lose in their own country the perfection of their dulness. Essays
However, Sapolu injured an ankle in the game and on Thursday his status was downgraded from questionable to doubtful.
Ryan on Jul 22, 2008 anchorman is easily the most quotable and one of the funniest movies i've seen. im doubtful they will be able to recreate that magic of stupidity from the first one with such a larger audience. it's exactly like #1 said. it looked like the cast was just having fun but with more pressure and higher expectations at the box office, the sequel might lose the fun the first one had. and on an unrelated note, TDK is incredible in IMAX. check it out jim on Jul 23, 2008 Update From Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on Anchorman 2 « FirstShowing.net
Many other cases raise only hints, come from uncertain contexts, or are doubtful for other reasons.
All doubtfulness vanish after the testimony of the key witness.
And two of those look increasingly doubtful runners as fears grow about the weather and going. The Sun
Even with a more aggressive policy of positive discrimination, it is doubtful whether geographical inequalities can be overcome.
Whether there is such a thing as a profit motive at all is highly doubtful. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
It's doubtful if either has the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.
Assyria's decline -- the change whereby she passed from the assailer to the assailed, from the undisputed primacy of Western Asia to a doubtful and precarious position. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
So saying, he let him pass, and Calandrino fared on, all misdoubtful, albeit he felt no whit ailing; but Buffalmacco, who was not far off, seeing him quit of Nello, made for him and saluting him, enquired if aught ailed him. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
And it's doubtful that decisions to ratify international covenants on the subject involve much public consideration either.
Or perhaps it refers to a curved knife for harvesting grapes (parra = cultivated grapevine) or doubtfully caper (alcaparra). Machetes y guaparras
But seven months into his reign he fell ill, and he emerged from this as a megalomaniac - he may have lost his sanity, though this is doubtful.
Mind you it is doubtful we will see a shallower, more insipid attempt at shifting the blame from the attacker to a victim.
This equivocalness, however, can be easily shown to rest on the peculiar fact that there are cases of doubtful right, for the decision of which no judge can be appointed. The Science of Right
If the wider applicability of the 'brainwave' is doubtful in rich nations, it's positively outlandish for not-so-rich ones. The Times of India
The guy pauses a moment, then grants that this proposition seems doubtful.
It is doubtful that he trusted Jude with the key to the post office box.
Hobson was always doubtful after jarring his knee in last week's friendly with Manchester United while Jones suffered bruised ribs in Tuesday night's game with Middlesbrough.
it was doubtful whether she would be admitted
When we shall have instructed them in anthropometry and psychometry in the most minute manner possible, we shall have only created machines, whose usefulness will be most doubtful. The Montessori Method
I suppose that, at the beginning of this chapter, one had the notion that, by hard scratching through musty old records we might rake up vague, more than doubtful data, distortable into what's called evidence of unrecognized worlds or constructions of planetary size -- The Book of the Damned
What seems more doubtful is that Charles's future share in the realm was overtly discussed in June 823.
Now it seems he may have been bluffing all along, thus the efficacy of such a coalition seems doubtful.
The meaning of the _vallum_ is much more doubtful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
The etymology of the word contumely is doubtful but I am of the opinion that the derivation suggested here is not unsound. Satyricon
Cases were ascertained from multiple sources, and it is doubtful that any were missed, although we can not be certain.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. Charles Dickens
It is doubtful whether the patient will last out this month.
Whether there is such a thing as a profit motive at all is highly doubtful. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
It is doubtful that any other area of the country boasts a league with so many teams and players.
Christians (and not of Jews), the only doubtful point being whether the use of “Christiani” (“quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos appellabat”) is not a hysteron proteron. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
But the prospects for the fund remain doubtful due to a number of potential hurdles. Japan Considers Stimulus, Wealth Fund
I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
But the result confirmed that building society provisions will rocket this year to cover bad and doubtful home loans.
In view of the doubtful status of adversative _atque_ at the time of Ovid and the ease of corruption of _atqui_ to _atque_ I have followed Heinsius in reading The Last Poems of Ovid
And with school districts already pinching their pennies, it's doubtful whether they'll pony up the dough.
The "yett," as usual, was barred, and it is more than doubtful whether, even if open, the coach could safely have passed within -- so narrow was the space between post and post. The Dew of Their Youth
Everything is genuine and costly, as becomes the gifts of a king, though it must be admitted that certain of the royal offerings which are ranged at the foot of the shrine, such as jeweled French clocks, figurines of Sèvres and Dresden porcelain, and a large marble statue of a Roman goddess, are of doubtful appropriateness. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
Aidan O'Mahony sustained a thigh injury in the drawn encounter, and is rated doubtful.
It was he who had inflicted an appendectomy of doubtful necessity on Harry forty-two years ago.
Former Manchester United reserve Paul Dalton is rated extremely doubtful with a strained thigh muscle.
The contents of the paper was skilfully worded so as to convey the impression that the deponent was a woman of somewhat doubtful character herself, but that on the other hand she had been tricked by the defendant into a secret -- and what he intended to be a temporary -- marriage. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble
The ethics of his decision are doubtful.
It is doubtful whether the council will be able to recover all the back tax or enforce the costs order.
Loans that remain overdue for 91 days or more can be classified as substandard, while those overdue for a year to three years are classified as doubtful. RBI Asks Banks to Set Aside More Funds Against Bad Loans
I retain the word asrama in the English version as it is very doubtful in what sense it has been used in the original. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
With Lord Jim and Grace both on his books, Pinkie felt doubtful about his chance of selling either.
Four substantial panels (two of doubtful origin) and the predella, or figured plinth, remain.
Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall, October 7th, 2008
That's a shame, because had Pettitte been there, painfully telling the cameras that Clemens admitted to him that he took HGH, it's doubtful that Clemens could have dismissed such significant testimony with his already-legendary "misremembered" and "misheard" comments. Before Congress, Clemens knocks self out of box
If you're riding a hold-up horse or a doubtful stayer you have to sneak him round, taking the shortest route around the inside and keeping him as relaxed and switched-off as possible.
It is doubtful whether he had any particular control over the course of events.
It is doubtful if there will ever be a conclusive judgement about colonialism.
This far northeast, leagues from the Dragon's Jaw, it was highly doubtful that any dragons in the area were of the friendly sort.
It is doubtful that voters will approve the bill.
The diagnosis thus rests upon vague criteria, of doubtful validity; but it makes sense, more or less, in practice.
The design director, a masthead editor or the news desk should be consulted on doubtful cases or proposals for exceptions.
Hexapla, the obelus was prefixed to words or lines which were wanting in the Hebrew, and therefore, from Origen's point of view, of doubtful authority, while the asterisk called attention to words or lines wanting in the Septuagint, but present in the Hebrew. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Whether there is such a thing as a profit motive at all is highly doubtful. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
It is doubtful whether this is the oenothera of the ancients. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
What we have now is a short-lived amassment of goods and spectacular high living for the obscenely wealthy, who must be thinking 'AprÃ¨s nous le dÃ©luge' [1] if they are thinking at all, which is doubtful. Will Democracy Forever Remain an Illusion?
Moreover, it is doubtful whether the new instruments for greening the CAP provide enough incentive to change the production methods of those farmers who damage the environment the most.
She is allowed her personal opinions but it is doubtful that any comment she may offer has power or relevancy to the thousands of highly symptomatic women who are desperate to sleep through the night, think clearly again, enjoy sex without pain of vaginal dryness and maintain optimal lean body mass, lower risk of diabetes, osteoporotic fractures and dementia. Ricki Pollycove, M.D.: Estrogen During Menopause: To Take, Or Not To Take?
It is doubtful whether the council will be able to recover all the back tax or enforce the costs order.
In this realm, there is no controversy between Christians, only the certainty of doubtful origins.
As it is doubtful that the dimensionalisation was done by anybody working on the film and instead probably knocked out by a promotions or design company purists might want to just filter this down to clean 2D by looking at it through anaglyphic specs with one eye closed. Alice in Wonderland 3D Concept Art | /Film
It is doubtful that the US can successfully arrogate this privilege only to itself.
There was no sight of land, no Skoufas, no food but a doubtful clump of rooty plants and a tuft or two of dried-up grass. THE QUEST FOR K
Though the method by which he was brought to Israel was of doubtful legality, there has been general acceptance that Israel had the right to assert jurisdiction over offences committed in Germany.
Whether he can realistically hope to overturn the sizeable Labour majority in Barking is perhaps doubtful.
_ Pray, Madam, do not thus suspend my doubtful Soul; but if you do design to insnare my Life, speak, speak freely: Or if the Constable be at the Door, let him shew his Staff of Authority, perhaps I may corrupt him with a Bribe. The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold
Whether there is such a thing as a profit motive at all is highly doubtful. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
So, was the man really "splayed" on Novak's windshield? doubtful. "Morally speaking, what [Bob] Novak was doing here is no better than walking down a crowded street with his handgun, firing off .22 rounds at random."
After that I was brought from these long and doubtfull thoughts and phantasticall imaginations, and remembring all those maruellous diuine shapes and bodies which I had personally seene with mine eies, I then knew that they were not deceitfull shadowes, nor magicall illusions, but that I had not rightly conceiued of them. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Yet with many drillmasters themselves inexperienced and with even some experienced ones being of doubtful competence, some curious maneuvers resulted, never contemplated by those who drew up the drill manuals.
She impulsively threw in the last, so to speak a catchall, because the penultimate charge was more than a bit doubtful, Chuck’s not having performed unnaturally in bed, and in fact the previous one had slim support, for she had never seen his gun if indeed he had one. The Houseguest
Most recently, a new ankylosaur was named on the basis of an incomplete mandible and fragmentary cranial material, but the ankylosaurian affinities and validity of this taxon are doubtful.
It was so novel a thing to undertake observations in reliance upon merely theoretical deductions; and that while much labour was certain, success appeared very doubtful.
It is doubtful whether the patient will last out this month.
While her efforts to escape may serve to evade death, it is doubtful that she has the concepts of life and death, and the desire to live.
Later, when the usefulness of pretence had passed, people would be allowed to wave their children off, although it is doubtful whether this rendered the moment any less painful.
It is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention," or "Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation," or "unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning. SeeLight:
But whether they (or the rest of us) will get certainty before the next election looks doubtful. Times, Sunday Times
I am doubtful whether I can solve the puzzle, but I'll have a shot at it.
Who wants stuff of doubtful or bad quality, even if it's given for half the price?
A doubtful look crossed Lena's face, which wt had suffered a thousand tiny lacerations and were leaking out pain. HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
It also did not make clear that doubtful or disputed cases should be referred to the courts.
The etymology of the name Varuna is doubtful, but the representation of him in the Rig-Veda points to the sky as his original form -- he is a clear example of a sky-god who becomes universal. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
Whether there is such a thing as a profit motive at all is highly doubtful. THE ESSENTIAL DRUCKER
Knesset member Michael Kleiner said: “The bombardment of Belgrade and other cities and the civilian population also in Yugoslavia is doubtful, especially after the Serbs announced their readiness for a ceasefire.” Matthew Yglesias » Karadzic’s Defense
You have been doubtful about all of this new physics, Watson.
The fact that it was legally doubtful is irrelevant as long as it furthers the greater good of getting Republicans elected in Texas. July 2004
Whether the soft pizzicatos made it to the audience all the way in the back is doubtful.
Eric was far from sure and Marion looked doubtful.
Unless he could find ten times as much," said the beggar, "and that I am sair doubtful of; -- I heard Puggie Orrock, and the tother thief of a sheriff-officer, or messenger, speaking about it -- and things are ill aff when the like o 'them can speak crousely about ony gentleman's affairs. The Antiquary — Complete
It is highly doubtful as we look at the options and find it is largely a case of rounding up the usual suspects. Times, Sunday Times
If culture thrives under them — a very doubtful position — it is not because voters wish to understand the historical allusions of candidates, but because the general stir and life of public activity tends to commove the whole system. Voltaire
It is astonishing how our prejudices change from youth to middle age, even without any remarkable interposition of fortune; I do not say dissipate, or even dispel, which is much more doubtful -- but they change. Phoebe, Junior
In fact, looking at the porky physiques on parade at the Lakeside, it's doubtful whether they could even manage a hop or a skip, let alone the jump.
I'm very doubtful of an intervention scenario, if he truly is bipolar.
Whether even that can be achieved must be doubtful in a period of massive social transformation, generating profound dislocation and insecurity.
It is, on the contrary, as a vast amount of various and unequivocal evidence demonstrates, incalculably more modern; nay, we find proof of the fact here in that very bed which has been instanced as rendering it doubtful; the clay of which the interpolation is composed is found to contain fragments, not only of the cornstone on which it rests, but also of the Wealden limestone and shales which it underlies. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
I am doubtful whether I can solve the puzzle, but I'll have a shot at it.
England instead of despotic Russia, it is doubtful if he could work out his discovery of the electrotype -- we say _doubtful_; for, as far as we can learn, it seems hitherto judicially undecided whether the mere use of a patent, not for sale or a lucrative object, is such a use within the statute of James as would be an infringement of a patentee's rights. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
It is doubtful whether the minister's plan to find, train, equip and deploy retirees was superior to boosting the resources of the regular police to perform the same function.
The zone numbers are given in brackets if the record is doubtful.
Frank Lampard was ruled out of Sunday's Aston Villa defeat with a thigh problem and he is still rated doubtful for England's European Championship double-header against Israel and Russia.
he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful
Her father supports the attempt, but his former wife remains doubtful. Times, Sunday Times
Whether the same applies to transfers of company property by the controllers in order to put it out of the reach of creditors, in circumstances of actual or pending insolvency, remains doubtful.
But, leaving aside the doubtfulness of generating 'news' this way, do the surveys really tell us anything? Archive 2009-07-01
It's doubtful if either of the two gentlemen have the chops for such clownishness, although they both are reputed to have fierce tempers.

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