DUBIOUS in a Sentence
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26 example sentences for DUBIOUS, such as:
1. I remain dubious about her motives.
2. This claim seems to us to be rather dubious.
3. In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.
4. The firm was accused of dubious accounting practices.
5. It was new and rather stiff, and that made him dubious.
2. This claim seems to us to be rather dubious.
3. In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.
4. The firm was accused of dubious accounting practices.
5. It was new and rather stiff, and that made him dubious.
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Meanings and Examples of DUBIOUS
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dubious
a. questionable; filled with doubt
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 With panic in her heart, Scarlett did not know whether to tell Melanie of Rhett's words and have the dubious comfort of her misery or keep it to herself.
2 Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
3 He avoided his dubious cronies and was seen no more in the company of Yankee officers, Scallawags and Republicans.
4 It was new and rather stiff, and that made him dubious.
5 A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall.
6 So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
7 The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any higher place.
8 And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
9 In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.
10 At the sixth he began to reflect that the search was rather dubious.
11 Then indeed, borne down with dubious terror, I was motionless, my hair stood up, and the accents faltered on my tongue.
12 Three dubious days of blind darkness we wander on the deep, as many nights without a star.
13 And this was what caused his dubious, inquiring, sometimes hostile, expression, and the shyness and uncertainty which Vronsky found so irksome.
14 He looked very dubious; but I made a grab at his arm, and he understood at once I meant him to steer whether or no.
15 I didn't take particular notice," he said, dubiously, "not knowing the ways of the place.
Example Sentence:
1 This claim seems to us to be rather dubious.
2 The firm was accused of dubious accounting practices.
3 The assumption that growth in one country benefits the whole world is highly dubious.
4 I remain dubious about her motives.
5 The results of this policy will remain dubious for some time.
6 Abroad, Obama is ready to deploy military might in dubious causes defined by the country's hawkish defense establishment.
7 It's especially so in Jackson's case given his beleaguered relationship with Sony and the dubious conditions of his death.