Dubious
adjective
Not sure, or causing doubt.
David felt dubious about the plan to steal the bank.
Often appears as...
- dubious about
- dubiously
adjective
Likely not to be true or likely not correct.
There are dubious claims that the artifact is over a million years old.
Often appears as...
- dubious claims
- dubious source
adjective
Not honest or morally acceptable.
Jane spent her life fighting against dubious practices in the banking industry.
Often appears as...
- dubious practices
- dubious methods
adjective
Not sure, or causing doubt.
David felt dubious about the plan to steal the bank.
Often appears as...
- dubious about
- dubiously
adjective
Likely not to be true or likely not correct.
There are dubious claims that the artifact is over a million years old.
Often appears as...
- dubious claims
- dubious source
adjective
Not honest or morally acceptable.
Jane spent her life fighting against dubious practices in the banking industry.
Often appears as...
- dubious practices
- dubious methods
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Expressing Uncertainty
Use 'dubious' to express hesitation or lack of confidence in something.
She was dubious about accepting the job offer without reading the contract.
Pro Tip 2/2Questioning Validity
When feeling unsure, 'dubious' is useful for questioning the truth or reliability of something.
The witness gave a dubious account of the events that seemed inconsistent with the facts.
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Perspective is...
service and then there's a kind of dubious value which you create by changing the way people look at things von Mises completely rejected this distinction and he used this following analogy he said he referred actually to some strange economist called the french physiocrats who believed that only true value was what you extracted
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How to spot a...
Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken, and the serial number has precisely equal spacing between each number. So the next time you come across some dubious dough, have a closer look, pull out your iodine solution,
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Let's clean up the space...
of a new approach to how we interact with our environments, as it's often given the dubious honor of being the world's highest garbage dump. Decades after the first conquest of the world's highest peak, tons of rubbish left behind by climbers has started to raise concern,
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Jonathan Haidt: How...
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
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My year reading a book...
it seemed as though the only option left to me was to see if I could get something translated for me from scratch. Now, I was really dubious whether anyone was going to want to help with this, and give up their time for something like that.
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Do Shark Stories Help...
understand that sharks are ecologically important after decades of intense attention sharks have gained the possibly dubious distinction of charismatic megafauna which means that practically everyone knows or thinks they know who and what
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Baby Bison Takes on Wolf...
is understandably dubious but when mother makes her move he has no choice but to follow and almost immediately things start to go wrong the courage is just too much his mother turns back trying to keep him safely upstream of
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Mars Rover: Spirit PIPE...
Hills a two-month journey four times farther than the rover was ever expected to drive Squyres thinks it's the best option but the engineers are dubious I remember he said that this is where we're going
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Charmian Gooch: My wish:...
as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies. And the awful thing is, there are so many other examples out there from all walks of life.
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Behind the lies of...
and laughter. The first time I heard about Holocaust denial, I laughed. Holocaust denial? The Holocaust which has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world?
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Perspective is...
service and then there's a kind of dubious value which you create by changing the way people look at things von Mises completely rejected this distinction and he used this following analogy he said he referred actually to some strange economist called the french physiocrats who believed that only true value was what you extracted
Video examples
How to spot a...
Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken, and the serial number has precisely equal spacing between each number. So the next time you come across some dubious dough, have a closer look, pull out your iodine solution,
Video examples
Let's clean up the space...
of a new approach to how we interact with our environments, as it's often given the dubious honor of being the world's highest garbage dump. Decades after the first conquest of the world's highest peak, tons of rubbish left behind by climbers has started to raise concern,
Video examples
Jonathan Haidt: How...
Levin writes that all over the world, nations are coming to terms with the fact that the social democratic welfare state is turning out to be untenable and unaffordable, dependent upon dubious economics and the demographic model of a bygone era.
Video examples
My year reading a book...
it seemed as though the only option left to me was to see if I could get something translated for me from scratch. Now, I was really dubious whether anyone was going to want to help with this, and give up their time for something like that.
Video examples
Do Shark Stories Help...
understand that sharks are ecologically important after decades of intense attention sharks have gained the possibly dubious distinction of charismatic megafauna which means that practically everyone knows or thinks they know who and what
Video examples
Baby Bison Takes on Wolf...
is understandably dubious but when mother makes her move he has no choice but to follow and almost immediately things start to go wrong the courage is just too much his mother turns back trying to keep him safely upstream of
Video examples
Mars Rover: Spirit PIPE...
Hills a two-month journey four times farther than the rover was ever expected to drive Squyres thinks it's the best option but the engineers are dubious I remember he said that this is where we're going
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Charmian Gooch: My wish:...
as they told our undercover investigator exactly how these dubious deals are done using such companies. And the awful thing is, there are so many other examples out there from all walks of life.
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Behind the lies of...
and laughter. The first time I heard about Holocaust denial, I laughed. Holocaust denial? The Holocaust which has the dubious distinction of being the best-documented genocide in the world?
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Rithvik Dhanjani
Indian Actor
It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.
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Mark Waters
American Director
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.
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Toby Stephens
English Actor
They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to do that with the film, and it didn't work.' And then I read the script, and I actually liked it.
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Franklin Foer
American Writer
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
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George Eliot
British Author
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.
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Paul Graham
English Scientist
Startups often have to do dubious things.
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Rithvik Dhanjani
Indian Actor
It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.
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Mark Waters
American Director
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.
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Toby Stephens
English Actor
They sent me the script, and I was dubious at first. I said, 'Lost in Space? They're reviving that? They tried to do that with the film, and it didn't work.' And then I read the script, and I actually liked it.
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Franklin Foer
American Writer
One of Trump's vulnerabilities is that he doesn't always vet his people, whether it's business partners, the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.
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George Eliot
British Author
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Michelle Dean
American Journalist
Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.
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Paul Graham
English Scientist
Startups often have to do dubious things.
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