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fishy

[fish-ee] / ˈfɪʃ i /


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Marquis Brown always reports the job scams he encounters on LinkedIn and marks fishy emails for spam.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Parents and teachers have told reporters of slimy chicken, as well as food that appeared undercooked and had a fishy odour.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nadal spoke to WSJ about his fishy breakfast, exercising without pain and his love of classic film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

And T-Pain admitted he’s actually a #DoorDashPartner only after users began to smell something fishy.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

“We can’t hide my whole family, it’ll look too fishy and they can’t all leave their jobs,” said Ron.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

As soon as I arrived in Livingston Manor, a hamlet around 120 miles north of New York City, my life became notably fishier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this year’s Rose Parade still managed to reel in a Guinness World Record title by setting its sights on something decidedly fishier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

Fish vary in their omega-3 levels and generally the fishier they taste the more omega-3 fats they have — such as tuna, salmon, deep sea perch, trevally, mackeral and snook.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023

The kind from my coastal neck of the woods eats fishier things, and although I have never eaten one, I have eaten other seaside birds, and they can taste like low tide.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021

Even fishier, according to the medical examiners, there was a two-hour gap between the estimated time of death and when the cop called it in.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Mackerel is among the fishiest of fish, so I’m stoked by the clean flavor of the silvery specimen I encounter at Barrel & Crow.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2015

Indeed, one of the fishiest things about this entire story is that the Hoax of Hollywood conference lasted just one day.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2013

I recently visited some great friends in the Florida Panhandle and got to hang out in Destin, one of the neatest harbors and fishiest towns on the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baja, Calif. Baja and the Sea of Cortez, featuring Cabo San Lucas and the East Cape region, is perhaps the fishiest place on earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

I never seen a pack o' fools look fishier; and you may lay to that, if I tells you that looked the fishiest.

From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson


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