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US
/ˈkwɛstʃənəbəɫ/
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[ UK /kwˈɛstʃənəbəl/ ]
[ UK /kwˈɛstʃənəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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subject to question
a fire of questionable origin
a questionable reputation
questionable motives - able to be refuted
How To Use questionable In A Sentence
- How that rule would apply to those currently incarcerated is unclear, but in any event, the benefits of this ethically questionable legislation would arguably be minimal. News Item
- He knows that his collaboration in both wartime and personal events is morally questionable, and acknowledges this.
- Where we find questionable practices in sales or complaint handling, firms can expect that we will take action. Times, Sunday Times
- The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
- Rather, he appears to have seen it as an organon for the acquisition of knowledge from unquestionable first principles; in addition he wanted to use it in order to help make clear the epistemic foundations on which our knowledge rests. Saving Prostitutes in Sevilla
- This net work will show what it ` s viewers want to see African Americans clubbing it up, not in stuffy dances at round tables but in rowdy bars and questionable venues like an after game NBA Allstar Party. Democratic Convention, Yes. Republicans, Not So Much - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- But, generally, the right uniform confers an aura of authority and legitimacy on even the most questionable of occupations.
- Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
- Teriyaki salmon was seared to a questionable degree of firmness and sat on a dais of tepid mash potato with a nastily commercial sticky teriyaki sauce.
- Sometimes nature's contribution can be of questionable taste. Times, Sunday Times