dubious
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There are morally and ethically dubious questions aplenty.
From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026
Good grades have always been a dubious predictor of professional success.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
"Another dubious call that goes in Celtic's favour. There will be serious questions asked about it."
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Concern now rests upon multiple dubious candlesticks between March 16 and April 7, including three bearish engulfing candles and several dojis.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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