dubiously

dubious | American Dictionary

dubious
adjective
us/ˈdu·bi·əs/
probably not true or not completely true; doubtful:
The team had the dubious distinction of ranking 31st in the league.
Dubious can also mean not to be trusted, or not completely moral:
a dubious character

Examples of dubious

dubious
However, teachers and students seemed quite dubious that computers could do so.
Such an operation was obviously hazardous, not least because, with the lease over a year expired, its legality was dubious.
No reference is given to recent sophisticated analyses of racism and intergroup conflict which have moved well beyond such bland and politically dubious generalities.
The problems involved in assessing" functional importance" render the concept highly dubious sociologically.
There are other dubious points too, but that one is conclusive.
Their dubious financial circumstances thus widen the rift between them.
Both anti-war and pro-war camps used propaganda derived from bogus science, or dubious methodology and philosophy of science, when it suited their book.
There are also occasions on which the analysis of particular examples is highly dubious.
On the rare occasions when that dubious virtue is called for, 'impartial' will do as an all-purpose word.
A review of the literature on strategic trade suggests that such arguments are dubious in this context, however.
The feasibility of identifying mutually exclusive liability subtypes that are each featured by a unique phenotype profile is thus dubious.
There is a tendency to oversell the overlap between cell groups 1 and cell assemblies, often based on dubious interpretation of volume conduction.
They started to lament their poor salaries and their dubious prospects.
The benefits of this are dubious, specially as it is often used for electoral purposes with destabilising inflationary effects for the domestic economy.
However, his book rests on a dubious premise.
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