dubiousadjective
uk/ˈdʒuː.bi.əs/us/ˈduː.bi.əs/C2 thought not to be completely true or not able to be trusted:
These claims are dubious and not scientifically proven.
He has been associated with some dubious characters.
Ruth Ellis has the dubious (= bad) distinction of being the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
C2 feeling doubt or not feeling certain:
I'm dubious about his promises to change his ways.
More examples
- We were always a bit dubious about the advantages these changes would actually bring.
- Let us think for a moment about the dubious benefits of nuclear technology.
- He's under investigation because of his dubious accounting practices.
- How exactly did they work out these figures? I think they're a bit dubious, personally.
- He was involved in some dubious activities in the past which his former colleagues have only hinted at.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Uncertainty
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- circumstantial
- conflicted
- debatable
- definite maybe
- dispute
- joker
- kind
- kind of idiom
- kinda
- knife edge
- knife edge
- razor
- shade
- there's no knowing idiom
- touch-and-go
- uncertain
- uncertainty
- unconfirmed
- vague
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dubiously
adverb uk/ˈdʒuː.bi.əs.li/us/ˈduː.bi.əs.li/