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dubious
1. Somehow it seemed much more real, knowing this body had actually been born under a different sun and he wasn't some dubious translation from dead flesh to electricity and then back to the flesh of a good friend's hot-box daughter
2. I did as I was told and then stepped gingerly over my breakfast tray, not wanting to spoil the dubious pleasures that awaited me on my return from my ablutions
3. At work I confront a never-ending war from persons of dubious value: First of all Nicoleta, a clerk, who is always insulting, mocking and slandering not only me but other colleagues as well
4. All that Terry could do, once the dust had settled and his divorce had been dragged through the mire of the gutter press, was to lend his name and his former glories to endorsements and dubious advertising campaigns
5. Bunty's definitely dubious about it and still taking the 'I've made my bed and must lie on it' standpoint
6. Their openness in answering their inquiries won over even the most dubious
7. and dubious advertising campaigns
8. The announcement from George at the Council meeting, after his presumptuous offer of assistance as 'adviser' for dubious civil improvements, and that he would then 'push forward' to become a hotelier, as a model for the rest of them, was the last straw
9. I came to the conclusion that the plane itself was the diamond of desire, a gem sometimes of dubious origin, but essential for this tale
10. dubious time with city traffic, they never lost sight of their fleeing prey
11. dubious, I tell you,” this doctor would say and all hell will break
12. With a dubious expression, he handed the empty pouch to Nerissa
13. “That old rogue? We’ll never hear the end of his dubious wisdom
14. It was also entirely likely that the eastern city, one so full of characters almost charming for their dubious yet reliable connections, would yield the intelligence he sought
15. “He is a dubious character at best
16. have all done some dubious things in the
17. Now I’m stranded on a barren rock of a planet with, at best, dubious survival chances
18. He wouldn’t tell me much about the latest investor, so I did some investigating, asked a few colleagues in the business, and I’m fairly sure there is something dubious about them
19. In truth, Toran had already checked the provenance of the data source with no clues rendered (which was just as bad as indicating the dubious origin of some anarchist group)
20. know that all the other salesmen, older fellows who were dubious
21. unlike so many times in that shiny casino with all its false anticipations and dubious glamour
22. The new plan of minimal intervention – an effort to restrict the extent of ‘cultural infection’ by allowing humans to act as protagonists in the resistance – seemed a morally dubious process
23. Still chafing from the aspersions against his grandfather Lorro (and his dubious acquisition of the family fortune!), Dorro made a momentous decision
24. I had the dubious honour of examining the ballistic effects of many a gunshot wound during those years, and I can tell you that not all bullets are the same
25. You only proclaim your lack of knowledge for everyone to see because you cannot get all of the facts from a newspaper article which uses dubious sources and is written only to attract attention
26. Those arrests were for dubious political issues and probably were more of a desperate attempt by the Nationalists to curry favour with the ANC, for the generals constituted no threat to anyone…except the Nationalists because of their knowledge of the dirty action campaigns that they, the Nationalists had ordered
27. She brushed dust, mold, and other dubious smudges from her clothing
28. The absence of spiritual references and indifference to Divine Law has hastened an (uncertain) moral relativism of dubious value
29. Humankind, however, possesses another ―remarkable‖ attribute uncommon to Beast, the capacity to render extinct, members of its own species for reasons (oftentimes) considered dubious at best
30. The inherent ―right‖ to terminate one‘s (own) life as it relates to vague or questionable notions defining quality of life, introduces yet another dubious precedent as it relates to Choice, especially in rather gray areas where the decision to either perpetuate or curtail an individual‘s life has been proxied (sic) at a time when that individual could not possibly foresee the (uncertain) consequences of such decisions entrusted to the care of family members or friends (concealing underlying motives for authorizing such decisions, perhaps) or where a potential illness at some uncertain point in time or that individual‘s problematical reaction (to that illness) could not possibly be understood in advance; that is to say, until that individual is actually sitting on Death‘s doorstep
31. America may one day acquire the dubious ―distinction‖ of having been the only great nation in the Annals of History that purposely and systematically sought its own (internal) destruction
32. Naturally, all these ads are no more than scareware, so don’t panic and pay a hefty sum for a dubious piece of software
33. To this purpose, God must be expunged from the public consciousness lest His presence confound the prescribed arrangements of mechanical processes where two plus two may not necessarily add up to four nor does it have to provided such dubious calculations preserve the implausible standards of an unthinking individual who has been summarily reduced to rote
34. What nation had the highest proportion of its males killed in a war of aggression? The dubious record goes to Paraguay, with over three quarters of its adult males dying in the War of the Triple Alliance
35. That dubious distinction belongs to his being mostly responsible for starting the Cold War
36. Every study released by the government claiming success or a low rate of killing civilians has been met with skepticism, since the evidence presented is dubious
37. In terms of who invaded the most often, Wilson clearly has that dubious distinction
38. The Ku Klux Klan, White League, Red Shirts and other racist terrorists have the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous and most disturbingly successful of all terrorists the US has ever faced
39. Apart from that dubious qualification, I myself had no business on Mystic's water-slicked decks that night
40. John Tyler holds the dubious distinction of being the only former president to ever outright commit treason
41. Nixon accepted a full pardon from Ford and thus holds the dubious distinction of being the only US ex president to admit to thirteen criminal felonies
42. “Oh, Gordon will blow his stack all right,” he responded to the dubious gaze, “but if I wait until after he’s won his election, he’ll get over it soon enough
43. Ferguson was openly dubious at the extemporariness of Colling’s plan, but he pushed the telephone over towards Colling and said, “Go ahead and see if you can call him
44. Hilderich was already on his feet, following Amonas from close behind, careful with his steps, avoiding what seemed the most grisly pathways and wet spots that held soft matter of dubious origins underneath
45. Some would have made their own arrangements concerning food, perhaps going out of their way to procure some meat either by hunting or by making certain trades, sometimes of a dubious nature
46. “What? That’s preposterous, we can’t leave everything behind! What are you saying?” exclaimed Ludwig, arms raised in dubious protest
47. The festivals include cooking contests, parades, farm tours, and of course, beauty contests (where a young girl gets to hold the dubious title of Miss Durian for a whole year!)
48. The Bridge had the dubious reputation for being the most popular place in the United States and the world for people to commit suicide
49. Being the tallest and most experienced with climbing mountains (from my youth among the Ani’ Yun’-wiya), I had the dubious
50. I was on the eastern side this time and had the dubious task of riding in the roughest terrain and visiting the smaller villages
