Sample Sentences for
dubious
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    She made a dubious claim about winning the award, but no one could confirm it.
    dubious = untrustworthy or hard to believe
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    His writing ability was dubious to say the least, but he considered himself lucky.  (source)
    dubious = of questionable quality (doubtful)
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    Tobias doesn't like the dubious looks the Abnegation give him when he refers to Marcus's cruelty,  (source)
    dubious = doubtful
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    The only dubious ray of hope has come from my sister.  (source)
    dubious = doubtful (not to be counted upon)
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    "Yah," Meg said dubiously.  (source)
    dubiously = full of doubt
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    Bert Tozer, Albert R. Tozer, cashier and vice-president of the Wheatsylvania State Bank, auditor and vice-president of the Tozer Grain and Storage Company, treasurer and vice-president of the Star Creamery, was not in the least afflicted by the listening dubiousness of his parents.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    But no sooner was he informed that Ivanhoe was in careful, and probably in friendly hands, than the paternal anxiety which had been excited by the dubiety of his fate, gave way anew to the feeling of injured pride and resentment, at what he termed Wilfred's filial disobedience.†  (source)
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    ...his feeling partook less of intuitional conviction than of strong suspicion clogged by strange dubieties.  (source)
    dubieties = things that are doubtful
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    Although being eyeball to eyeball with Miss Crocker was nothing to look forward to, the prospect of being warm once the cold weather set in was nothing to be sneezed at either, so I resolved to make the best of my rather dubious position.  (source)
    dubious = uncertain
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    Chuck Muckle whipped off his shades and eyed the patrolman dubiously. "You wouldn't happen to be the same crackerjack lawman who fell asleep in his car while the vandal trashed our survey stakes, would you?"  (source)
    dubiously = with doubt or suspicion
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    "I really fear sometimes that you cannot," he said, with a dubiousness approaching anger.†  (source)
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    Aaron, an apple-cheeked youngster of seven, with a clean starched frill which looked like a plate for the apples, needed all his adventurous curiosity to embolden him against the possibility that the big-eyed weaver might do him some bodily injury; and his dubiety was much increased when, on arriving at the Stone-pits, they heard the mysterious sound of the loom.†  (source)
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    "It's a metaphor," I said, dubious.  (source)
    dubious = doubtfully
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