fishy

Example Sentences

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"Now they come out saying there are issues with the system. To me, it seems like there's something fishy going on," she said.

From Barron's

Another smelled like a pile of wet rope encrusted with seaweed and left to rot in the sun, and a nasty, fishy aroma it was.

From Literature

“Salty, briny, fishy...I think I have it,” he said after a moment.

From Literature

If someone gave you a price that was too good to be true, or made the process completely frictionless, your brother might very well say, “Something is fishy here. It’s too easy.”

From MarketWatch

“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”

From Barron's