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  • To my taste, the authors made some dubious leaps of faith in their analysis,   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
  • Moody was going to ask where he had got this map, which was a very dubious magical object...   (source)
    dubious = suspicious
  • "Yah," Meg said dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = full of doubt
  • The DeSoto, he knew, was a dubious snow car.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
  • One or two chairs of dubious value sit at one end where the kitchen window opens onto the porch.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • The decrease in size, from Ralph down, was gradual; and though there was a dubious region inhabited by Simon and Robert and Maurice, nevertheless no one had any difficulty in recognizing biguns at one end and littluns at the other.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or questionable
  • Leo looked dubious, but he held up the plug, and...  [When he learns that the spirit horse Tempest will provide the electricity for his curcular saw]   (source)
    dubious = doubtful; or full of uncertainty
  • The only dubious ray of hope has come from my sister.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be counted upon)
  • We allege criminal misconduct; we shout about antitrust; we sue for ancient and dubious liabilities.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • A dubious individual, even by Artemis Fowl's standards.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • Saphira looked at him dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • "Oh, come on," I said dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • Tobias doesn't like the dubious looks the Abnegation give him when he refers to Marcus's cruelty,   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • [referring to a picture in a scary book] "But you knew it couldn't hurt you, didn't you?"
    "Ye - ess..." Danny said, a little dubious.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (that something is true)
  • We thought his morals dubious and tried to avoid him.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
  • Yes, Dinorah says. You girls give them an earful, then the rest of us will give them something else.
    Everybody bursts out laughing. We've talked openly about it, and I can't say I really miss it, but some of the girls are ready to scream, they want a man so. And, I should add, it's not just the dubious "ladies" saying this. ... These girls can be so vulgar.   (source)
    dubious = of questionable reputation
  • Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (potentially wrong or untrustworthy)
  • But that would have taken us over the dubious southern uplands of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we do not do that.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or dangerous (not to be relied upon)
  • Simon looked dubious. "What makes you think so?"   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • Blomberg looked dubious, but the explanation was reasonable and...   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • Jason stared at me dubiously and said, "I thought I was supposed to be learning about family."   (source)
    dubiously = with doubt or uncertainty
  • "It is a hard thing to weld aluminum. Steel would be better."
    ... He handed it to me and I hefted it. "Feels heavy," I said dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully (doubting that steel really would be better than aluminum)
  • I looked up at her, dubious, as she extended her hand to me.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or uncertain
  • Scott was dubious.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful; or suspicious; or full of uncertainty
  • Rawlins handled the boots dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = with doubt (as to whether they were any good)
  • "Isn't she pretty?"
    The kids give dubious looks, and I suspect a fair amount of jealousy.   (source)
    dubious = uncertain or doubtful
  • "I'm not a monster—I'm a friend."
    "Friend?" inquired the girl with a dubious tone.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful; or suspicious
  • ...he still eyed Strider dubiously. 'How do we know you are the Strider that Gandalf speaks about?' he demanded.   (source)
    dubiously = with suspicion
  • He looks dubious.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • They have dim apprehensions that such propositions as 'God does not exist' are somewhat dubious at least in comparison with statements like 'All carnivorous cows eat meat.'   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • The man stood motionless, his dubious integrity challenged.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • They are interested solely in confirming highly dubious theoretical hypotheses by...   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be trusted)
  • she'd turned down the dubious tray offered on the flight   (source)
    dubious = of doubtful quality
  • A woman of dubious reputation who...   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • Or I can lay a dubious claim to being the Macgregor.   (source)
  • Then he looked at me again, more dubious.   (source)
    dubious = suspicious; or full of uncertainty
  • Baldwin had the dubious task of approaching Judson to ask for a postponement.   (source)
    dubious = full of uncertainty
  • I lay there, picturing Sophie and her parents plodding their way southward towards the dubious safety of the Fringes, and hoping desperately that they would be far enough off now for my betrayal not to hurt them.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful, uncertain, or of questionable quality
  • There was a short pause, and a dubious one.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • Luther looked at Thomas, dubious, but he said, "Yes."   (source)
  • Dubiously the captain took the key in hand.   (source)
    dubiously = with doubt or suspicion
  • "The vanguard?" he repeated dubiously.†   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • He said dubiously:   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • Blanche [dubiously]:   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • ...we pay dearly for the dubious pleasure of not having to make up our minds.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful; or suspicious; or uncertain
  • I saw her eye too, dubious, considering, taking in my clothes from top to toe, wondering, with that swift downward glance given to all brides, if I was going to have a baby.   (source)
    dubious = suspicious
  • a man "of more than dubious reputation."   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • "If that's what you want..." she began, dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • The old man hummed dubiously to himself, glancing sideways at what the fire showed of the black torn cloth.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • Mr. Simms seemed dubious, promised to do what he could, and then said, "But nine outa ten you won't git her, Mister."   (source)
    dubious = doubtful
  • Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
  • The courier shook his head dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • This aspect of the case had always seemed dubious to Miss Quested, and she had asked the police not to develop it.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • But this is all 'dubious gossip'   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
  • a small chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, sprinkled with very dubious chopped nuts.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (of questionable quality)
  • At once Dr. Glenn became dubious again, though he gave her no sign.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • ...his feeling partook less of intuitional conviction than of strong suspicion clogged by strange dubieties.   (source)
    dubieties = things that are doubtful
  • when he spread it out, and saw it was full of holes, he shook his head dubiously for a while,   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • Seeing the farmer eying him dubiously, he added, "I'll be glad to sleep in the barn."   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • He looked very dubious;   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • Carl stopped the horses and looked dubiously up at the black sky.   (source)
    dubiously = suspiciously
  • And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • [Looks dubiously at her.]   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • My brother Farshid, with his schedule full of soccer, wrestling, and karate, was too busy to be recruited for this dubious honor.†   (source)
  • The men peered dubiously down the shaft, which led no more than ten yards into the earth.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Owens walked inside, looking dubiously at the shelves, and at the old wooden pews tipped up against a wall.†   (source)
  • She was still dubious about singing, though.†   (source)
  • Emma said dubiously.†   (source)
  • While many, even most, farmers I knew were laconic and uncomplaining, Harold talked of himself often, and always as if he were almost but not quite two people—the one who had a lot of "great ideas" (Harold put the quotes around the words himself, every time he spoke them) and the dubious one, too, the one who knew none of these ideas would ever pan out.†   (source)
  • Kirsti asked dubiously.†   (source)
  • A love of order also shaped the principles of justice, with death and marriage the main engines of housekeeping, the former being set aside exclusively for the morally dubious, the latter a reward withheld until the final page.†   (source)
  • "I don't know much about children," said Kit dubiously.†   (source)
  • Eleanor looked dubious.†   (source)
  • He looked dubiously at his pancakes, topped with strawberries and puffs of whipped cream.†   (source)
  • "And do you enjoy this sort of thing?" he asked dubiously.†   (source)
  • Hoyt looked dubious but nodded.†   (source)
  • I took it inside to show Jenny, who was ecstatic to have it back, despite its dubious passage.†   (source)
  • Hiro is giving him an extremely dubious look.†   (source)
  • "Okay," said the lady, dubiously.†   (source)
  • I was a little dubious, but the vodka proved to be as smooth as it was potent.†   (source)
  • She stared, dubious.†   (source)
  • I looked dubiously at the crack.†   (source)
  • Ramius had not yet begun school when he first heard tales from other children about what his father Aleksandr had done in Lithuania in 1940 and after that country's dubious liberation from the Germans in 1944.†   (source)
  • About his awful dad, about his dubious wardrobe choices.†   (source)
  • I had the dubious honor of being its first inmate—got to see them build the Mess Hall brick by brick.†   (source)
  • Mr. Curran, maybe the young man who spoke to you so impudently should be moved to a seat where his dubious charms will not be so enthusiastically embraced.†   (source)
  • Statistics like that are always to be viewed dubiously; it includes women who had to have abortions because their lives were in danger or because the baby had already died in the womb.†   (source)
  • He wished he had a friend, a male friend, with whom he could talk; and this made him realize that, with the dubious exception of Rufus, he had never had a friend in his life.†   (source)
  • But then I really don't know it's right for me to be helping you with such dubious assignations.†   (source)
  • His father had acquired the land by dubious means back in the 1930s.†   (source)
  • Madura foot was found wherever people habitually walked barefoot, but the town of Madurai, not far from Madras, had the dubious honor of lending its name to this disease.†   (source)
  • When I told Ben and Ringer all this—minus the part about Evan being inside me, a bit too nuanced for Parish—there was a lot of dubious staring and significant looks from which I was painfully excluded.†   (source)
  • Senior English, calculus, beginning French, physics, European history, and something dubiously called "La Vie."†   (source)
  • They turned to find a squat, middle-aged man regarding them dubiously.†   (source)
  • But she wouldn't take no for an answer, so under the dubious gaze of the horses, they stripped and leapt in.†   (source)
  • The fact that I was American seemed to outweigh my dubious role as Moody's wife.†   (source)
  • "Yeah," said Joe, dubiously.†   (source)
  • General Lee, after appraising the situation in February, had been extremely dubious.†   (source)
  • He counted along the beds in the ward, moving his lips, and then centered his attention dubiously on Dunbar.†   (source)
  • And so ships were diverted to the high-profile but strategically dubious mission of bombing the enemy's homeland.†   (source)
  • The girl looks dubious.†   (source)
  • Asher looks at her dubiously and then over at me, and I know he plans to find out the truth of it later.†   (source)
  • Seabiscuit might, he muttered dubiously, win another purse.†   (source)
  • She looks at you, dubious.†   (source)
  • PILKINGS [dubiously] I'll have to see what it is.†   (source)
  • Immediately a roar ascended from the Horde, as if the drawn sword confirmed Thomas's otherwise dubious intentions.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus put up his hand to do so, caught a microsecond flash of malice from the teacher's eye, but then another student said, almost as an interruption, "I think there are some very dubious statements here.†   (source)
  • Mr. Mowen glanced up dubiously: he could not tell whether the answer was intended to apply to him or to the young man.†   (source)
  • He'd say about a dubious political ally, "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissin' out than outside the tent pissin' in."†   (source)
  • I believe these mummers, being of dubious station in life, owed money to these chaps in Dorset.†   (source)
  • Rafi looked dubious.†   (source)
  • Then he looked up at me dubiously and asked, "You want me to buy these?"†   (source)
  • Well, since I'm also one of the very few lawyers round here, that's a dubious distinction at best, Louisa.†   (source)
  • "You seem to be in compliance with all applicable regulations," the customs bot said dubiously.†   (source)
  • But to hear that she was staying in town, with a dubious young man whom she didn't seem to care to defend, was alarming to me, and even hurtful.†   (source)
  • But Ephraim Cohen, the museum's chief of conservation, was dubious.†   (source)
  • He said that it had "grown rather vague and dubious" in his mind because of the repeated postponements.†   (source)
  • He proposed to prove it, and invited the jury of dubious mountaineers to watch him do it.†   (source)
  • "Hear me, country cousin," said Jan. Do you remember a snot-nosed brat of dubious parentage, third generation, named Yama?†   (source)
  • Every parent I talked to was hesitant, dubious, unconvinced by my protestations and plans, but all of them eventually decided that their chillun could go "if the weather be good."†   (source)
  • BOTARD: And it's all very dubious.†   (source)
  • Very sensible, she said, dubiously.†   (source)
  • By extremely dubious methods a pro-Johnson Senator was denied his seat.†   (source)
  • The D.A. looked dubious.†   (source)
  • She assented, rather dubiously, for she did not really want to go.†   (source)
  • ...they all began discussing dragon-slayings historical, dubious, and mythical...   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (as true history)
  • the man called; his voice sounded tentative, dubious.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • "I doubt if she would have had the strength to inflict that left-handed blow," said Dr. Constantine dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • And yet, from time to time, Poirot continued to sniff it dubiously, as though his keener nose detected something I had missed.   (source)
    dubiously = suspiciously
  • He regarded her carefully and dubiously, yet desirefully.   (source)
  • Mr. Cruncher was soothed, but shook his head in a dubious and moral way.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • But upon second thoughts the success of the plan seemed rather dubious.   (source)
    dubious = doubtful (full of uncertainty)
  • And this was what caused his dubious, inquiring, sometimes hostile, expression,   (source)
    dubious = doubtful or suspicious
  • "I don't see that 'tis any business of ours," Smallbury murmured dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully
  • asked Lenehan dubiously.   (source)
    dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
  • "They don't fight very well," Bran said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Simkins shot a dubious glance at the ornate building.†   (source)
  • The men look dubious, but he thinks they'll do as he says.†   (source)
  • It troubles me, this dubious escape route.†   (source)
  • Ruth was seated at the far end of the table with her dubious husband and offspring.†   (source)
  • And to Senior Security's look of dubious alarm, "It will make a number of things clear to you.†   (source)
  • Some smattering of dubious runes, if Kilvin thinks you're ready.†   (source)
  • Jess asked dubiously as we walked through the front doors of the store.†   (source)
  • Langdon and Sophie sat patiently in front of the screen and waited through two more dubious returns.†   (source)
  • The reactions around the table were a little dubious.†   (source)
  • And my dreams, and my already dubious balance.†   (source)
  • Well, I'll try to have a look at it," he says dubiously.†   (source)
  • "Okay," said the lady, even more dubiously.†   (source)
  • And I don't even have the dubious honor of being a Rider like you.†   (source)
  • He proved a very dubious protector, however.†   (source)
  • The Clave isn't going to like this," said Alec dubiously.†   (source)
  • "I suppose you know best," Chronicler said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Everyone in class gave him a dubious look.†   (source)
  • She looked dubiously at her bowl, scooped a spoonful, sniffed it.†   (source)
  • The men exchanged dubious giggles and off-color jokes.†   (source)
  • Bast prodded his shoulder with a finger, looking it over dubiously.†   (source)
  • The boy looked him up and down dubiously.†   (source)
  • "Well..." he said dubiously, but she had vanished out the door.†   (source)
  • I think it's a railroad," the boy said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Dan looked at her, his expression dubious, Amanda didn't seem to notice.†   (source)
  • The wildling gave the letter a dubious look and handed it right back.†   (source)
  • He scratched his bald head dubiously, and edged back from the tragedy he had made.†   (source)
  • Graham was a woman of famously dubious sense, and working for her was a tall order.†   (source)
  • "What ties the killing to Cain?" asked the dubious Gillette.†   (source)
  • They inched their way dubiously toward Major Danby from opposite sides.†   (source)
  • I'm in," Jace said, though Kyle still looked dubious.†   (source)
  • "But he's your brother," Arya said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Eve studied the pale pink liquid dubiously.†   (source)
  • Max gazed dubiously at its chipped and jagged remains.†   (source)
  • Smiling a little, Eve took another dubious look at the naked bodies gyrating on stage.†   (source)
  • He stared at me dubiously for a long moment before answering.†   (source)
  • Where's Max?" asked Paolo, sounding dubious.†   (source)
  • I'm doing the work!" added Connor in response to Max's dubious expression.†   (source)
  • 'That's dubious, but I like to think I'm competent.†   (source)
  • "I don't think it needs more defenses," Tyler said dubiously.†   (source)
  • Our parents are dubious as they listen, their mouths tighten: it could be that we are losing.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist looked dubiously at his easily amused colleague.†   (source)
  • I won't get involved in any horse-trading that might be constitutionally dubious.†   (source)
  • Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife mused and paused a moment to ponder dubiously.†   (source)
  • Her dim gaze questioned the young face above her dubiously, almost desperately.†   (source)
  • It was a dubious present: The horse was lame.†   (source)
  • Max poked dubiously at a tofu dish masquerading as meat while Rasmussen initiated conversation.†   (source)
  • Tam snorted dubiously, and Max grew weary of the game.†   (source)
  • "What could vyes possibly have to do with Rome?" asked Max, looking dubiously at the pair.†   (source)
  • "Very well ..." the President said dubiously.†   (source)
  • He's helping you," I repeated dubiously.†   (source)
  • I am on dubious ground, and this enrages me.†   (source)
  • My heart is a dubious object at best, blotchy and treacherous.†   (source)
  • Flexing his fingers, he looked dubiously at his hands encased in their red-taloned gauntlets.†   (source)
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