How To Use Dubious In A Sentence

  • One of only two remaining alligator species in the world, this reptile has the dubious distinction of being the planet's most endangered species.
  • As the passage continues there is a section of rotten flooring supported on dubious stemples just above head height.
  • He begins by accepting the very dubious identification of her with the ‘woman who was a sinner’ and who anointed the feet of Christ.
  • The Russians would take a small slice at a time via dubious but not too provocative measures until the whole salami is gone. Archive 2008-06-01
  • There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
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  • This claim seems to us to be rather dubious.
  • Philosophy aims only at the truth, not at mere persuasion regardless of truth, which is a dubious enterprise in both its intentions and its methods.
  • Take the hustlers, beggars and streetwalkers who ply their dubious services along Beach Road and some of the other popular streets in the area, for example.
  • The evidence needed for sound policymaking should thus be much more comprehensive than attempts to extrapolate dubious principles from the findings of controlled trials.
  • His background is a trifle dubious, to say the least.
  • The first goal came from route one, then there was a dubious penalty and the third one was offside. Times, Sunday Times
  • It may be a dubious analogy, but just say that reading a novel is something like going on a ride at the midway.
  • So, will the morally dubious Sinbad high-tail it off to the safety of Bali, or will he keep his word, risk life and limb to find the book, and repay the loyalty his good friend has shown him?
  • Therefore, they had shallow drafts and rode low in the water; while they were more seaworthy than many of the northern ironclads, their weatherly qualities were dubious.
  • Her father David, a psychologist of increasingly dubious capabilities, decides to start over by moving out to the boonies.
  • Orchestral synthesizers have acquired a bad rap because of their historically dubious use as substitutes for ‘real’ instruments.
  • Given the polygraph's dubious record, resistance to the lie detector has started to stir.
  • A more transparent and honest way of charging would be preferable to the underhand and morally dubious system currently employed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Likewise, it should be emphasized here that any attempt to compose a historical picture of the Patriarch and his work cannot be considered correct or proven, at least academically speaking, if it is based on the '' censorious '' texts of the time, which in many ways are irresponsible and historically dubious, and which essentially are nothing but libel. Orrologion
  • One direct result of this vicious circle was that many parents remained dubious about the quality of non-government education.
  • Then there's another police chief, suspicious of the veteran cop's dubious tactics on the job.
  • More pertinently, I'm deeply dubious about the word "casual" when it comes to relationships of the heart. Dear Mariella: I want children but my boyfriend doesn't. We have a great relationship, but is there any future for us?
  • Book critic Carlin Romano, who is also critic-at-large for the Chronicle of Higher Education (in which role he was a finalist last year for a Pulitzer in criticism), takes a look at that dubious aphorist, E.M. Cioran. An Inquirer trifecta ...
  • Vicky's mother has warned parents to get rid of any dog they are dubious about.
  • Unless you have the dubious pleasure of living right next door to an airport one of the biggest downsides of going on holiday is catching a flight at an ungodly hour of the day.
  • The assumption that growth in one country benefits the whole world is highly dubious .
  • A more dubious advantage is being able to copy-edit my dreams. Making Light: Open thread 136
  • Congress, of course, never intended to suspend $ 50 million dams to prolong the dubious existence of obscure fish.
  • ‘I think it would be best if I took my own daughter home,’ Mr. Ainsley responded briskly with a hint of dubiousness.
  • General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling
  • He charged that officers in construction were expected to enforce registration regulations to root out dubious contractors.
  • Many modern philosophers consider that claims to knowledge of an unembodied consciousness (a God) are too dubious and implausible to be worth considering.
  • More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
  • For these reasons, reflective foil on board insulation is of dubious value.
  • The Stephensons had the dubious honor of being the 100th family to lose their home in the fire.
  • In so far as the idyll is a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached -- pre-industrial culture, medieval society, etc. -- we might be dubious of a restoration that is essentially an act of validation. Narrative Grammars
  • Charm can be a dubious quality, hiding a multitude of sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • Can't be too pedicular in a pinch," he grinned as he wriggled dubiously into the dry garments, and in a few minutes he was seated beside the girl upon a rough bench drawn close to the fire. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
  • Helen looked on Miriam as a pretty ornament or toy, and Miriam gazed dubiously at what she called the piety of the other. Moor Fires
  • On the blog he claims a dubious victory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
  • The knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss such training as faddish and of dubious value.
  • Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), raising questions Oscar Cruz yesterday slammed the Arroyo administration for continuously invoking executive privilege over what he called dubious government contracts, the latest WN.com - Articles related to New Treatments Hold Hope for Failing Eyes
  • The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
  • Copycat journalists amplified this dubious academic research by claiming that teenage murderers were duplicating their favourite violent scenes.
  • Their utility in servicing traffic from Earth to the asteroid belt is, however, dubious.
  • They resort to dubious methods of shaping public opinion by planting unsourced stories in the media, which are not only unverified, but also unverifiable.
  • Is it perhaps yet another organisation designed to make money by providing endorsements of dubious value?
  • Their survey seems to have used dubious and possibly unethical methods to extract potentially sensational information.
  • By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show. Ziad for the Defense
  • The Rampur case sheds light on the dubious role which the World Bank plays in abetting the scams that Wikileak exposed. Peter Bosshard: World Bank Hydro Project Exposes Blatant Abuse of Climate Funds
  • Not but what it’ll be a kind of busman’s holiday for you,’ he finished up, rather dubiously. Busman's Honeymoon
  • A rathe rinterseting bit of info, turns out Monsanto's CEO doesn't even believe in his company's own products. click here are numerous instances where Monsanto has threatened the M$M about exposing dubious safety of its commodities. by OpEdNews - Diary: Destroy the Afghan Opium Crops for Monsanto
  • The appendix, a worm-like appendage of dubious usefulness, usually hangs straight down from the first portion of the large intestine, the cecum.
  • English cricket's performance centre has a dubious reputation. The Sun
  • I'm dubious about Wikipedia's tritanopia test -- I can barely make out part of the 5, and I have excellent color vision! Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions
  • Her pallor that morning refined the indubious coarseness of her face, and changed vulgarity into the attractive originality of a spirited character. London River
  • Yet in the very midst of these vices which had rendered his honesty dubious, and name bespotted, he nurtured in the depths of his soul three virtues capable of again elevating him -- an unshaken love for a young girl, whom he married in spite of his family, History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
  • Even when the setting is warm and inviting the appeal of stripping away comfort and luxury seems dubious.
  • And his general military historical stuff, partly on my own reading and partly on the opinions of people I respect, is occasionally interesting, but too often boiler plate wrapped in dubious generalizations, particularly in areas where he has no personal expertise such as the Aztecs and medieval Japan. levitra Says: Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution
  • eBay would be the most logical acquirer, given that they already own a 25% stake through a rather dubious stock sale by a former trusted employee of Craig's.
  • First, it is not concerned with contemporary folk music, but a rather dubious brand of acoustic schmaltz that was popular back in the early 1960s.
  • But with niggles aplenty and late tackles proliferating, it was little surprise that Rutherford and Ruthven were to exchange penalties for dubious tackles throughout the game.
  • For instance, at Kyoto the USA cut a deal of dubious morality, politely called ‘emission trading’, to buy from Third World countries their unused ration of pollution.
  • I'm really pleased and frankly relieved to report," begins Glenn Kenny, "that, a couple of snippable minutes and some dubious music choices aside (that Cake song about the jacket is one thing, but a cover of Howard Jones's 'No One Is To Blame' is pushing it), writer/director Adrienne Shelly's final feature Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that payoff every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell) blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Waitress.
  • Billy shrugged his shoulders in modest dubiousness. CHAPTER XIII
  • If that all sounds a bit dubious, the less riveting savings option would be to install cavity wall insulation. Times, Sunday Times
  • About the sale, my father was dubious at first. Cranford
  • First, Britain provided a cosy bolthole in dubious circumstances for this monster. The Sun
  • In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality.
  • But with the visitors frustrating their illustrious opponents and Milan's nerves jangling, the league leaders were awarded a dubious spot-kick four minutes from the end when Empoli goalkeeper Daniele Balli collided with Jon Dahl Tomasson.
  • Of course, she thought, still clinging to the dubious shelter of the doorway. Charcoal burners.
  • To work the sanctions would have to be ‘short, sharp and painful’ but an official report was dubious about their effectiveness.
  • Such a perspective avoids the dubious causal claims of the psychological approach — it is not at all clear why passive resistance ought "automatically" to produce shame in aggressors — while retaining the emphasis on system to which Shelley was committed. close window Notes on 'The Transcendental: Deleuze, P. B. Shelley, and the Freedom of Immobility'
  • This rough-around-the-edges high school dropout's profligate ways led to personal bankruptcy and, ultimately, some very dubious dealings with shady characters.
  • This is not only a dubious historic proposition, but also represents an unwarranted slur on the reputation of his country and its neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are more dubious politics than sensible economics in the budget deal negotiated by the White House and the Republican leadership.
  • They're not actually rude or deliberately slack (unlike some of the Cafe Uno staff), just dubiously competent.
  • In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners.
  • The dubious magic of the present continuous is no substitute for a close attention to the past. The Times Literary Supplement
  • This was probably not the best time to take an online IQ test of dubious scientific value; considering the inherent dubiousness of IQ tests to begin with.
  • I was pretty dubious about it when I was a journalist, but now I think it's remarkably ineffectual.
  • He is dubious about suggestions that a big new deployment of troops may be necessary to maintain momentum in the fight against the Taleban. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the letters are written while the hearts of the writers must be supposed to be wholly engaged in their subjects (the events at the time generally dubious): so that they abound not only in critical situations, but with what may be called instantaneous descriptions and reflections (proper to be brought home to the breast of the youthful reader;) as also with affecting conversations; many of them written in the dialogue or dramatic way. Clarissa Harlowe
  • She was dubious, but she complied, and the coins cascaded down from all parts of his body. The Secret Life of Houdini
  • Some, however, show disparities between the clinical and microbiological outcomes that make the role of the cultured bacteria dubious.
  • They weren't always on the side of good, and even when they were, they still regularly made morally dubious judgements, but they were always true to their natures.
  • Yet, despite regionalism's dubious political ramifications, it brought a measure of confidence to writers who needed to be convinced that their province was worthy of creative representation.
  • The dubious magic of the present continuous is no substitute for a close attention to the past. The Times Literary Supplement
  • That some taxpayers might welcome new taxes seems an economically dubious notion.
  • Those figures may have been dubious but, for an itinerant preacher, he had a pretty way with words that struck a raw nerve.
  • However, thanks to dubious sales techniques, it is widely mis-sold.
  • At the stoplight ahead, a vendor of dubious naturalization was selling tiny U. S. flags for ten bucks a pop. THE KILL CLAUSE
  • The declaration exposed him to accusations of hypocrisy after each revelation of arms sales to dubious regimes.
  • The dogsled was the ideal vehicle to accomplish it so she wouldn’t have to rely on the dubious support of her crutches on ice and snow. Mistletoe and Holly
  • I was a nail chewer, inclined to brood, and dubious of the motives of other people. Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
  • Plus I get to enjoy the fine form of the capable Mariska Hargitay playing the soft, yet dykey, and dubiously heterosexual, Detective Olivia Benson saving the world, one special victim at a time. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
  • Unlike many writers in this field, Kunstler is never gulled into praising projects and programs that have good intentions but dubious results.
  • They are in a constant and ongoing state of pure, unadulterated dubiousness. Obama Citizenship Rumor Peddlers Buy Ad Space In The Tribune
  • For drivers taking to the road on Monday morning it may come as some solace that they do not yet have to pay for their dubious pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
  • There might (although he felt dubious on this score) even be the possibility of liberation by the Wehrmacht. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The point is that al-Qaeda does not gain succor just from what Cullison calls "Arab resentment against the United States"; it also profits from the West's agonizing over the legally — not to say morally — dubious methods used to combat international terrorism, some of which clearly have a certain popular appeal, particularly in the United States. Letters to the Editor
  • There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has been associated with some dubious characters.
  • Gophna et al. also cite for support the progressionist notion that evolution disfavors events such as the simplification of complex systems like the flagellum, a dubious proposition in modern evolutionary theory, especially considering the common evolutionary trend of simplification in pathogens and parasites. The Wisdom of Parasites - The Panda's Thumb
  • After a time, the doctor had me removed from the backboard (which is a deucedly painful thing to be strapped to, in case you ever have the dubious privilege), carted downstairs for x-rays, and finally, blessedly, sent home.
  • Plus, those drinks often have a slew of other ingredients of dubious value, such as taurine, l-carnitine, guarana also a source of caffeine, and glucuronolactone. Coffee and kids
  • So it's a pretty dubious and in fact now a completely outmoded term.
  • The first goal came from route one, then there was a dubious penalty and the third one was offside. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tests have been shown to be of dubious validity.
  • Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment, it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted.
  • It sounds a very dubious principle and inconsistent with the accusatorial trial.
  • You’ve got in here the press’ natural cynicism and the fact that it’s better, career-wise, to be dubious of big pronouncements like this — when they run * against* hawkishness, that is — than it is to accept them. I Get Around | ATTACKERMAN
  • My legs, which I was already teetering on with dubious balance, seemed to give out and I collapsed, curling into a miserable ball under the glass.
  • In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1 The English Is Coming!
  • Along the way, the mild-mannered Green is introduced to the joys of groupie sex, narcotic-fuelled insobriety of dubious origin via a giant bifter known as a "Jeffrey", and various other staples of the rock star lifestyle. Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek
  • As such, it asks us to accept the dubious assumptions that interval returns are normally distributed and independent.
  • He expected that the two could discuss rationally my quitting high school to move into a broken-down apartment building with a male of dubious prospects.
  • They consider the plan to be of dubious benefit to most families.
  • I was a little dubious about this tour from the outset.
  • Why can't it throw off its dubious reputation? Times, Sunday Times
  • he has a dubious record indeed
  • But RCTs were developed to forestall irrational medical exuberance and "cast doubt on clinical enthusiasms about new treatments," he argues, not to demonstrate "treatment effects of dubious significance," the inverse use for which the pharmaceutical industry has "commandeered" RCTs. Is A Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis the Latest Mania?
  • Although the EFF has condemned the attacks on both sides, the 1000s that have resorted to such tactics reveal it as an effective, if legally dubious, outlet for protest.
  • It is instructive to look back at just what those who were dubious thought the downside was. Times, Sunday Times
  • Durand, a man who had a powerful affinity with banks and who was a three-time ex-convict, was by definition a man of dubious reputation, a reputation confirmed by the fact that he was a close and longtime term associate of Cronkite. Seawitch
  • Election Day in a Chinese village brings Jimmy Carter, windy speeches, and dubious promises
  • Red-hot rage may seem in order when the country's values have been trampled upon by a government with a dubious claim to legitimacy.
  • It's all in a good cause, people used to say, but Elizabeth felt that almost any action she took at this point would be of dubious value.
  • The term "museum quality" was bandied about along with other dubious labels. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
  • Citing a number of backdated transactions and what he characterized as dubious documentation the defendants received from NYT > Home Page
  • With an expression perfected from years of successful begging on the streets of the Windy City, he eyed Walker dubiously. Lost And Found
  • Honest answers to these questions suggest that the general assumption that growth in one country benefits the entire world is highly dubious.
  • Bronson's present production is an amalgam of shamanistic enterprise, healing sculpture, imagery, and spiritual-erotic massage-performance art that has been unofficially branded as the gay male recourse to living with the detonator of HIV still ticking in the mind despite the apparent if dubious constraint of the lentivirus in the absence of a certain cure. G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday"
  • Known for its dubious deviance from its claims, this issue is no different.
  • An important part of the answer, I think, lies in exposing a number of dubious assumptions about human psychology.
  • A couple of months back, some of you might recall, it was one Young Turk turned Old Guard with an ill-fated article on international SF, a Caesar of dubious pontification that met a Senate of aggravated responses. New BSC Review Column
  • He has the dubious distinction of being the first railway baron to go bankrupt.
  • Within a few years, Carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious enterprises.
  • It is clearly a dialect form of jeopard, and I make no doubt that juberous is a dialect variation of jeopardous, occasionally used as a form of dubious.] The Hoosier Schoolmaster
  • Do you think he should be no-platformed because he has said some rather dubious things about sexual relationships with minors?
  • Why people are prepared to tolerate a four hour journey each day for the dubious privilege of living in the country is beyond my ken.
  • This is not only a dubious historic proposition, but also represents an unwarranted slur on the reputation of his country and its neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
  • The assumption that growth in one country benefits the whole world is highly dubious .
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.
  • Indeed, candidates who choose to take the government subsidies are deemed "clean candidates," a term intended to bias the electorate in their favor, and the government in effect instructs voters that "clean candidates" are less likely to engage in corruption once in office—a most dubious proposition. Government Shouldn't Play Election Favorites
  • My Eastbourne Leak tells me a strange tale of a cheeky chappie among local divers who seems to be using conservation as a cover for a more dubious plan.
  • Yes, this is a silly monster flick and yes, we have two dubiously-identified heroes, and yes, Elvis goes after the mummy wearing a white sequin jumpsuit and cape. Play it again, Sam
  • Now they are holding a ballot to decide which of the villains will win the dubious honour of having his or her effigy burned on a Guy Fawkes bonfire next month.
  • The ranks of the Swedish army by now contained many adventurers and dubious mercenaries, and it was a shadow of its former self.
  • Cloned animals now include five species of mammals: sheep, goats, pigs, mice and cows - but all come with a dubious safety record.
  • ‘At first I was a bit dubious about going back to Bradford from Otley, but now I think the move is the best thing that we have ever done,’ he said.
  • The world's oceans have taken their toll on the black paintwork of the mighty hull, but even the most dubious traveller can be in no doubt that this was a vessel unlike any other.
  • Most of the ‘opportunities’ being offered by these people are in high-risk and often dubious unlisted companies. © 2001 The Namibia Economist
  • Sam looked dubiously at the large oval mirror on the desk, as Ryan set blue candles around it.
  • More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania.
  • He sipped his ultra-reinforced Ovaltine, wishing the janitor could bring himself to quit using epithets of dubious Latin pedigree. RC: How the Criten Got the Keys, Grubbage « Unknowing
  • And remember: No editing allowed, even if you’re coming off a deeply dubious "Macarena"-"Mambo No. 5" double-header! IPod Inspection: What were the last five songs you played? | EW.com
  • Maybe you didn't have this problem in the frozen tundra, but in the U.S. they had and still have some very dubious paths from the cattle to the packages of hamburger in the case. The big chapala beef beef
  • Mr Customer Smith did however acquire a dubious reputation for dealing in prize goods.
  • The dubious claims on offer have either been calls of judgment or stories where only time will tell. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'd thought there would, instead, be discussion of Plate XV and a certain dubious bit of film. Howard Hughes vs. the Amazon Sales Rank
  • François Georges-Picot, the French delegate at the secret negotiations that divided the Ottoman Empire into British, French and Russian satrapies, laid out France's dubious claim to Mosul and the area around it.
  • On the other hand, in _Requiescat_ there is not a false note, unless it be the dubious word "vasty" in the last line; and even that may shelter itself under the royal mantle of Shakespeare. Matthew Arnold
  • It is a very dubious honour. Times, Sunday Times
  • His democratic credentials are highly dubious and suspect.
  • Artists enjoy seeing themselves as raffish outsiders, people of dubious morality.
  • It leaves us vulnerable to dubious claims about the next demon du jour whose supposedly threatening actions "necessitate" U.S. military invasion in order to keep the world Venezuela Analysis
  • Indeed there were some among the treasury of relics amassed by obedientiaries here over the years about which he felt somewhat dubious. The Holy Thief
  • Like other closed systems of thought, Hegel's philosophy avails itself of the dubious advantage of not having to allow any criticism whatsoever.
  • He wants the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence Nice to decide the cost benefit of tempting new drugs, except when he needs to appease the tabloids clamouring for dubious cancer cures that cost lots. Speed limit: Philip Hammond puts his foot on the accelerator | Michael White
  • Yet, operating on a dubious and extremely broad reading of the Voting Rights Act, Ms. Sotomayor dissented from the decision. Wonk Room » Anti-Sotomayor Fearmongering Campaign Opens New Front: Felons And The Vote
  • In the end, dogmatic reactions to sex selection are unconvincing, and often rooted in dubious unstated assumptions.
  • Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker.
  • When Obama sat on the board of the JOYCE FOUNDATION, he "funneled" thousands of charity dollars to a guy named John Ayers, who runs a dubious education fund. Chicagotribune.com -
  • Easily the worst of the (mostly great) writers from the British Isles to have ever thriven in America (although Millar has a shot at deserving that dubious distinction, too). WAR STORIES Vol 2. Vertigo (DC) Comics, 2006
  • I was given the dubious privilege of organizing the summer fair.
  • And it spends billions each year in social welfare programs that are endlessly duplicative and of dubious value.
  • Does it not realise that it is making environmental catastrophes more likely with this kind of dubious affiliation? Times, Sunday Times
  • After every action taken, you must make the epilogic dubious disclaimer: "I did it for the lulz". "Other /b/tards were displeased to miss a chance at the lulz."
  • I attribute this dubious behavior to reading the blog work of one anapestic, whose digressiveness charming is pretty much boundless, allowing me to mentally brush off my own as minor league. Cake
  • Dere was just one thing 'bout Catherine dat I's dubious 'bout. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
  • He is similarly dubious about the suggestion that the protests were incited by older activists.
  • The first is the dubious origins of the manuscript. Christianity Today
  • It is a very dubious honour. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite the delays, dangers and costs of maintaining an iconic, though architecturily dubious structure, this renovation plan adulterates a Paris point of reference by day, and the spendor of the 20,000 light display at night. A Plan to Temporarily Alter Eiffel Tower’s Silhouette - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Like absinthe, the pencil skirt has a dubious reputation. Times, Sunday Times
  • How citizens would be persuaded to make such a move remains unclear, and the assumption that these underdeveloped regions could offer enough profitable jobs to sustain a large influx of people is equally dubious.
  • Being astute designers of dubious taste, we determined a while back to make our living room the "showplace" room. MISSING COLEMAN ALERT - HUNTING BUNTING
  • There are more dubious politics than sensible economics in the budget deal negotiated by the White House and the Republican leadership.
  • To the death she refused to be bamboozled by dubious reasoning.
  • The likely IPO valuation: at least 10 times higher than what was promised to him from that OTCBB IPO, which was to be sponsored by a "microcap" broker with a dubious record from earlier Chinese OTCBB deals. U.S. to Police OTCBB IPOs, Reverse Mergers for Chinese Stocks: It's About Time - Seeking Alpha
  • They quickly found it wasn't just a case of cars being a bit cheekily priced - but of resprays, write-offs, dubious documents and suspicious owners.
  • Both assumptions have always been dubious, and are even more so after last week's capitulation.
  • the dubiousness of his claim
  • Aurillac, a lovely city at the foot of the Cantal mountains, has the dubious distinction of being the prefecture in France furthest from a motorway.
  • Roll on dubious stats about how many followers it has. Times, Sunday Times
  • That is why Dali's importance as an artist confounds all those facile publicity stunts, his dubious political allegiances and his avaricious pursuit of wealth.
  • Tomás Aguilar was a classmate who devoted his free time and his talent to the invention of wonderfully ingenious contraptions of dubious practicality, like the aerostatic dart or the dynamo spinning top. Excerpt: Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • The princess 'fiancé; bridegroom-to-be; future husband, lord and master, "she explained, with indubious and positive iteration. Under the Rose

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