All 6 Uses
dubious
in
The Power and the Glory, by Cooke
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- Consadine, who never could earn money, and used to be from home following one wild scheme or another most of the time, was gone these two years upon his last dubious, adventurous journey; there was not even his intermittent assistance to depend upon.†
Chpt 2dubious = doubtful; or suspicious; or full of uncertainty -- sometimes to indicate that something described as good is actually bad
- They turned to find a squat, middle-aged man regarding them dubiously.†
Chpt 5 *dubiously = doubtfully or suspiciously
- Her dim gaze questioned the young face above her dubiously, almost desperately.†
Chpt 16
- He scratched his bald head dubiously, and edged back from the tragedy he had made.†
Chpt 17
- And they looked back at him dubiously.†
Chpt 22
- "All right," he said dubiously; "if that there tells you that he come a-past here, we'll foller this road—though it 'pears to me like we ought to stick to the cyar."†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(dubious) doubtful, questionable, or suspicious -- especially in a way that makes something seem unreliable, improper, or uncertain
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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)