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Sentence count:199+10Posted:2016-08-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: doubtfulquestionableuncertainSimilar words: ubiquitousenviousvariousanxiouscuriousobviousofficiouspreviousMeaning: ['djuːbjəs]  adj. 1. fraught with uncertainty or doubt 2. open to doubt or suspicion 3. not convinced. 
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121 A dubious pleasure because Jack, as in most of his activities, was unpredictable.
122 It reflects the contested and dubious nature of the new president's mandate.
123 The whole thing was, he had to admit, in very dubious taste.
124 Close attention and hard work would be needed to follow the dubious logic of such explanations.
125 Are we all prepared to accept these price increases for the sometimes dubious advantage of seeing our environment improved?
126 The changes proved successful and Gregs won an early, though dubious, penalty stroke.
127 She was a dreary, promiscuous, disorganized piece of human driftwood, who kept having babies of dubious provenance.
128 Quite apart from the dubious legitimacy of generalising from one such fragment, it is uncertain how the data itself should be interpreted.
129 Of interest is not so much their dubious factual basis as their plausibility.
130 Might it be that Marx faced facts while others sought the dubious shelter of wishful thinking?
131 The fifth would-be author, former privatization chief Alfred Kokh,(sentencedict.com/dubious.html) had quit over a similarly dubious book deal three months ago.
132 Corrupt border-officials collude with importers of dubious goods wanting to grease their way into the country.
133 Of course, she thought, still clinging to the dubious shelter of the doorway. Charcoal burners.
134 That some of his hypotheses are biologically dubious does not destroy the interest of his general approach.
135 The first proposal struck us as scientifically dubious, and the second as intellectually indefensible.
136 Mr Customer Smith did however acquire a dubious reputation for dealing in prize goods.
137 In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.
138 The result is still dubious.
139 It was a dubious punt back then.
140 I was rather dubious about the whole idea.
141 The testimony given by him is dubious.
142 Background is interlaced, uncertain, ambiguous and dubious.
143 Soho was still a highly dubious area.
144 He often hangs around with some dubious characters.
145 He applies the same insouciance to other dubious choices.
146 Most Chinese customers remain dubious about electric vehicle reliability and repair costs, he said.
147 Americans might take their imperial responsibilities for running the global system more seriously, Ferguson suggests, were they not befuddled by dubious theories of economic determinism.
148 They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.
149 The flamboyant slippers might also have dubious fashion value today.
150 The Shakespearean shylock is of dubious value in the modern world.
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