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词汇 example_english_dubious-distinction
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dubious distinction

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meanings of dubiousand distinction


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dubious
adjective
uk /ˈdʒuː.bi.əs/ us /ˈduː.bi.əs/
thought not to be completely true or not able to ...
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distinction
noun
uk /dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/ us /dɪˈstɪŋk.ʃən/
a difference between two ...
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Examples of dubious distinction


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My constituency had the dubiousdistinction of being almost equally threatened by all the inland sites.
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I have the dubiousdistinction of having secured the biggest defeat of all.
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I had the dubiousdistinction for a while of being chairman of a borough youth council.
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At one stage he had the dubiousdistinction of being my commanding officer.
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That country still has the most dubiousdistinction of having the fastest growing population in the world.
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They hold the dubiousdistinction of accumulating the league's only winless record in 2009.
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Earlier models had the dubiousdistinction of having an especially high rate of radio theft.
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This is what calls into question the dubiousdistinction between supposedly soft drugs and other drugs, which also applies, of course, to synthetic drugs.
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I, too, have had the dubiousdistinction of having to look at some of these books in the course of preparing for this debate.
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No other organisation has the dubiousdistinction of having a special commissioner paid for by the taxpayer with the express purpose of supporting actions against it.
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The river attained the dubiousdistinction of being the most polluted in the world with regard to dioxins.
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The system has the dubiousdistinction of holding the record for the world's largest (physical size) computer ever created.
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The family holds the dubiousdistinction of the most combined starts in the famous race without a victory.
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Starting with the 199091 season, and ending with the 199596 season, the 76ers had the dubiousdistinction of seeing their win total decrease each year.
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Lochhead has the dubiousdistinction of sometimes being referred to as the worst regular player on the worst team in history.
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In 1931, he had the dubiousdistinction of leading the league with 24 losses with a high 5.09 earned run average.
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To earn this dubiousdistinction, the film must also fail to earn more than the reported cost of its production, distribution, and marketing by a wide margin.
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