fishy

Speech parts

1. fishy - Noun

2. fishy - Adjective

3. fishy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.

Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

suspect suspicious funny shady fish weird queer shifty false unlikely uncertain suspected strange irregular problematic
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Antonyms

due good certain real likely amine
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Phrases with the word

smell something fishy fishy odor fishy smell fishy odour fishy eye fishy transaction

Derivatives

fishier fishiest

Examples

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal. Clare Short

There's always something fishy about the French. Noël Coward

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on. Pamela Stephenson

Start walking. When you hit a spot where you're gasping for breath, that should tell us our limitations. (Xypher) Oh, joy. I can't wait to be the guppy. (Simone) Glub, glub, little fishy. Start walking. (Xypher) Sherrilyn Kenyon

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. Masaharu Morimoto

I missed a tuna-fish sandwich with mayo on toasted wheat bread more than anything. Six months after I went vegan, I snuck into a deli and took one home. And, of course, it wasn't nearly as good as I fantasized. It tasted, well, fishy. Kathy Freston

Close letter words and terms

fishworm fishwort fishwrap fishy eye fishy odor fishy odour