The word
"dubious" means something uncertain or doubtful. It generally refers to things that seem suspicious or not entirely trustworthy.
Full definition
When their school decides to host a reality - TV show
of dubious distinction, four students band together to save the school and its students from commercial exploitation.
For those of you practicing outside your area of expertise, I believe the rules allow submitting your own clients for this admittedly
dubious distinction.
And for most artists without such an intellectual background, in those days they were very
dubious about making abstractions just for fear that they really didn't mean anything.
When used, it covers a given area
in dubious mist of your team's color.
Patent quality — the underlying reason why trolls are able to target companies and individuals
with dubious claims — is very unfortunately missing from the discussion.
Along the way, they make all kinds of
dubious claims about how much they've made — and they miss the big story.
I can't imagine anyone wanting that
dubious honor: it's so much more satisfying to win because you knew you were the best.
The 2014 letter, then, was based
on dubious claims about the effects of school discipline and highly questionable assumptions about what is driving racial discipline disparities.
I was a bit
dubious at first but I've had them around a month and so far I'm amazed!
If you're going to break the law on a regular basis it helps to have an attorney who is equally
as dubious as you.
This practice is made even
more dubious when you throw in premium financing.
Don't represent someone who wants to go public with
highly dubious claims of sexual harassment that will destroy lives and careers.
Good research can, and is, done with funding
from dubious sources.
They ensure that consumers, particularly children, are protected from commercially
dubious practices.
All these are committed
by dubious sites that are not regulated and are never genuine.
This procedure allows for more challenges to patents of
dubious quality because it is cheaper and more efficient than litigation.
Let's forget for a moment that that area doesn't really exist as anything other than a mathematical construct based on
dubious assumptions.
Others will make claims based off on number of marriages but often the values that they provide, in my opinion, are a little
bit dubious.
Even if the reasoning behind that win might be more than a
little dubious for some voters.
The end result is often that companies simply pay to
make dubious patent cases go away rather than bear the cost of fighting them.
People often
seem dubious that plastic plants can look good; I invite them to look again at the cages throughout my shop.
Smaller pet stores are starting to jump on board, too, selling pet products and hosting adoptable shelter animals, instead of selling animals from mills or other
dubious sources.
In another discipline, a person
uses dubious data, he games the system and self - audits in order to hide that for a number of years.
No, but we can prove that the creation myths of all religions are incorrect; as that is the foundation for each religion they are clearly
dubious propositions.
Unlike
other dubious sites there are a few sites which are easy and free and they too offer good genuine automobile insurance quotes.
That a study of
such dubious scientific quality could make the front page of the nation's most respected newspaper is disturbing, but perhaps not so unusual.
Not spending so much on medical treatments with
dubious benefits would be another possibility.
There is no observed data, yet somehow on the basis of this highly
dubious science, we are supposed to believe that it is essential to stop producing so much CO2.
The whole thing is all the more
dubious when you consider the key players involved with the report.
Some of the
most dubious products in the history of supplements have been testosterone boosters.
The path ahead is uncertain, and the one we just left turned out to be a pretty
dubious choice.
In noir, morally
dubious characters and double - crosses are pretty much par for the course.
«Both bills are based on
legally dubious theories, and if they become law, we will challenge them in court,» he said.
The history of social sciences, certainly of economics, however, may not be quite
so dubious as he portrays.
The premise is undermined by the film's occasionally
dubious ethics and its tendency to soft - pedal the dangerous situations it sets up.