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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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151 El Salvador has earned the dubious distinction of having the worst soil erosion in continental America.
152 Like teenagers with their first credit card, local officials armed with cheap state loans and money from land sales are splurging on lavish projects of dubious value.
153 Although much of that investment will no doubt boost China's competitiveness in the long run, billions have also flowed to make-work, vanity projects of dubious quality.
154 This is leading it to pour resources into dubious innovation champions while at the same time strewing obstacles in the path of the vast majority of private-sector companies.
155 The wisdom of using bigness as a benchmark dubious also in the financial world.
156 Havingentered the U.S. under dubious circumstances and without working papers, shelived with family members for some time, eking out an income braiding hair andthen working in a bodega in the Bronx.
157 Of course, Bartenev's story also appears dubious in places, especially his claim to be an ecologist.
158 The police raided the club and arrested several dubious characters.
159 At that time scholars dubious,(www.Sentencedict.com) Zhang Binglin directed it as forgery.
160 Since the Seven-ties a dwelling place for artists and writers who settled there because living was cheap, the village had long enjoyed a dubious reputation for Bohemianism and eccentricity.
161 In truth, there is not much that is ethically dubious about making a bacterium from scratch.
162 You burst in on her doing something dubious and she is trying to neutralise it by involving you.
163 Just take 1931, the year that has the dubious distinction of having the worst April-through-December performance of any since the Dow was created in the late 1890s.
164 So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
165 Critics argue that they legitimise exploitation and abuse, providing dubious working conditions and spawning a vast knock-on industry of illegal street prostitution.
166 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.
167 Keen-eyed merchants are old hands at spotting these clipped coins, and will charge higher rates to accept such dubious looking currency.
168 Bestowing favor on a dubious sycophant often lead to the downfall of dynasties.
169 Take Indonesia, where 80 % of deforestation is of dubious legality.
170 Once you've established that what you have is a true money market fund, it's not realistic to think you can comb through the portfolio and detect dubious securities.
171 She is the new Russian princess, heir apparent to the dubious crown of Anna Kournikova.
172 Method : 300 patients with insidious or dubious foreign bodies in the hypopharynx were examined and treated through rhinolaryngofiberscope.
173 Could the Swiss " protection " hold in such a case, considering their dubious status?
174 There were many illegal immigrants had become "Sabahan" through dubious ways or other legal ways, and their numbers are in the hundreds of thousands.
175 James A. Garfield holds the dubious distinction of being the only President who attended church with his assassin.
176 In Tolstoy's dubious theory of war, Napoleon was a mere monky riding an elephant.
177 I remember feeling dubious about starting a new life in Taichung.
178 Places and dates grow dubious a jumble of guesswork and speculation.
179 It was a very dubious - looking , nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
180 You probably would have written a few more test cases than I did, but imagine if that dubious conditional in Listing 7 had more than one short-circuit operation.
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