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fishy
adjective as in doubtful, suspicious
Example Sentences
“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”
Seabirds from all around were drawn to a frothy, fishy patch of ocean.
Fans often press him for the scoop on Trout, he said, with some version of this line: “You guys share the same fishy last name, and he’s Mr. Angel just like you.”
“I cannot say for sure, but something sure smells fishy,” Larson wrote in the email.
It’s the source of the smell of the sea, that sort of fishy, sort of eggy aroma that evokes deeply nostalgic reactions in, well, almost everyone.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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