How to Use dubious in a Sentence
dubious
adjective
- He made the highly dubious claim that Elvis is still alive and living in Hawaii.
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To avoid fees, the new "relationship" minimum for checking accounts jumped from $2000 to as much as $6000. And what would customers get in exchange? The ability to take advantage of such a dubious new benefit as a consolidated monthly statement.
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Consumer Reports,
March 1996
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But even that rather dubious claim is not the real point.
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Jocelyn Noveck,
Detroit Free Press,
13 Nov. 2020
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Even the kids who were dubious have come back for seconds.
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Bon Appétit Contributor,
Bon Appétit,
10 Mar. 2023
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Now all that was left was a dubious glide ratio and the promise of an open field.
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Caroline Paul,
Outside Online,
11 July 2018
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These claims range from the highly dubious to the patently false.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
22 Oct. 2017
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Gone are most of the shops selling cheap souvenirs and bars with cheap but dubious drinks.
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James Clark,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
19 Apr. 2018
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But his claim that windmills pose a great threat to our avian friends is dubious at best.
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Joshua Bote,
USA TODAY,
18 June 2019
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Rich people spend vast sums of money on things of dubious value all the time.
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New York Times,
9 Apr. 2021
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The methods are dubious in both practice and rate of success.
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Bill Goodykoontz,
Detroit Free Press,
3 Dec. 2021
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Worse is when the science cited is so dubious as to be useless.
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David Robert Grimes,
Scientific American,
8 Dec. 2023
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Plus, the idea that wild bears could acquire a taste for felines seemed dubious to him.
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Aaron Gilbreath,
Longreads,
5 June 2018
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The ethics of using prime farmland to grow fuel rather than food are dubious at best.
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Brian Barth,
Smithsonian,
3 Oct. 2017
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That may not be fair, especially in a case like this where the facts are dubious at best.
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Chad Pergram,
Fox News,
7 July 2018
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An early review of one of his shows from around that time was equally dubious.
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BostonGlobe.com,
27 May 2021
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The health benefits of many such foods remain dubious at best.
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The Economist,
1 Nov. 2019
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This course is mainly focused on the dubious place of empathy in art.
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Scott Korb,
Longreads,
1 Feb. 2018
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The hopes that the futurists draw from this theory are dubious.
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Maël Renouard,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Apr. 2020
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At the least, this means Trump made the dubious decision to hire a man with shadowy ties as a top aide.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
19 Sep. 2017
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But gambling on a craze, even a highly dubious one, can be about more than blind greed.
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The Economist,
7 Oct. 2017
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Any lawyer worth his salt knew this approach was legally dubious.
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WSJ,
7 Dec. 2022
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States should end these dubious partnerships and not make them in future..
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Roslyn Layton,
Forbes,
19 May 2022
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Some of these threats are very real, while others seem dubious.
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Samuel Goldman,
The Week,
1 Apr. 2022
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Now, some people will say horoscopes are a bit dubious.
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Jessica Morgan,
refinery29.com,
21 Jan. 2020
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Schulz’s murals wound up in Jerusalem in a more dubious fashion.
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Adam Kirsch,
The New Republic,
6 Apr. 2023
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Would a waiter, if the dubious pasts of his diners were revealed, be obliged to donate his tips?
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Longreads,
3 Oct. 2017
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Other researchers are more dubious about the first paper.
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Daniel Garisto,
Scientific American,
9 June 2020
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But Williams was still dubious and blamed her for the changes Larry had imposed.
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Stephen Galloway,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Mar. 2022
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Everyone has heard about the schoolboy’s dubious claim that a dog ate his homework.
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John MacCormack,
ExpressNews.com,
4 June 2020
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But the record of these unelected overseers is dubious.
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William McGurn,
WSJ,
15 Aug. 2022
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