How To Use Dubiously In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • I can send for a physician," said Lady Annabelle, looking dubiously at the corpselike figure on her hearth, "but I doubt he can get here under an hour; it's snowing something fierce out. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • If passed, this bill will be yet another of the powers of Star Chamber accrued by the US Government in the name of homeland security: issuing search warrants through secret courts, accumulating personal records without warrant in a provision of the PATRIOT Act renewed by President Obama, and now protecting witnesses from legal recourse when they level dubiously factual charges. Feisal G. Mohamed: "See Something, Say Something" And Impunity for Profiling
  • A dubiously videotaped confession by her alleged stalker was voluntarily pulled by prosecutors as direct evidence.
  • Carter was dubiously convicted of shooting three white men in a bar.
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  • This was wicked waggery, especially when it was directed to mar all the attempts of the unfortunate poet to improve his personal appearance, about which he was at all times dubiously sensitive, and particularly when among the ladies. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
  • Carter was dubiously convicted of shooting three white men in a bar.
  • Dog brushed and pajamas attained, only six hours and one somewhat dubiously subtextual PG movie later. For the life of me I cannot remember what made us think that we were wise and we'd never compromise
  • Seen in her hotel room, for instance, she is dubiously reflected in her own mirror, or lost behind a latticed screen.
  • 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
  • Sam looked dubiously at the large oval mirror on the desk, as Ryan set blue candles around it.
  • 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
  • With an expression perfected from years of successful begging on the streets of the Windy City, he eyed Walker dubiously. Lost And Found
  • 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
  • They're not actually rude or deliberately slack (unlike some of the Cafe Uno staff), just dubiously competent.
  • Not but what it’ll be a kind of busman’s holiday for you,’ he finished up, rather dubiously. Busman's Honeymoon
  • 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
  • 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

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