fishy

The number one rule, said Ariana Aimani, director of strategic partnerships at premium brand Paramount Caviar, is that caviar shouldn’t taste or smell fishy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

Small salty fish with tiny fishy bones every freaking place she looks.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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

That all makes sense on one level, but Angela Huffman, head of Farm Action—a nonprofit that campaigns against the corporatization of the food system—believes there’s something fishier going on.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2025

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

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 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

Before opening the campaign in Canada, let us, for a moment, step ashore in what our author styles the fishiest of modern capitals, St John's, Newfoundland.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various