dubious
Speech parts
1. dubious - Adjective
2. dubious - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer.
Of uncertain event or issue; as, in dubious battle.
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The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.