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The theory is based on dubious evidence that hasn’t been verified.dubious = questionable or unreliable
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The company was fined for using dubious marketing tactics to target minors.dubious = morally questionable or suspicious
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She has a dubious reputation. I wouldn't count on her.dubious = doubtful (not to be relied upon)
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She was dubious, but agreed to come with us anyway.dubious = doubtful; or suspicious; or full of uncertainty
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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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"You didn't bring any alcohol, did you? They're checking bags." "Don't worry about me. I'm covered." When I give her a dubious look, she whispers back, "Shampoo bottle filled with tequila at the bottom of my bag." (source)dubious = doubtful
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"It's a metaphor," I said, dubious. (source)dubious = doubtfully
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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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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)dubiousness = uncertaintystandard 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)dubiety = something that is doubtful or suspicious
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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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"Oh, come on," I said dubiously. (source)dubiously = doubtfully
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"I really fear sometimes that you cannot," he said, with a dubiousness approaching anger.† (source)dubiousness = uncertainty
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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)dubiety = something that is doubtful or suspicious
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Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand. (source)dubious = doubtful
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