All 4 Uses of
dubious
in
Main Street
- Some day I hope to confide that a heap of extremely dubious pumpkins as a window-display doesn't exhilarate me much."†
Chpt 4
- WHEN the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with white the bare clods in the plowed fields, when the first small fire had been started in the furnace, which is the shrine of a Gopher Prairie home, Carol began to make the house her own.†
Chpt 6
- She was sorry——Perhaps he had made all the mystery of love a mechanical cautiousness but——She fled from the thought with a dubious, "Some day."†
Chpt 7 *
- To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(dubious) doubtfulin various senses, including:
- questionable or doubtful that something should be relied upon -- as in "The argument relies on a dubious assumption."
- suspicious or doubtful that something is morally proper -- as in "The company is accused of using dubious sales practices to influence minors."
- bad or of questionable value -- as in "The state has the dubious distinction of the highest taxes."
- uncertain or doubtful -- as in "She is dubious about making the change."