How to Use dubious in a Sentence

dubious

adjective

• He made the highly dubious claim that Elvis is still alive and living in Hawaii.
• The shoes sold at $1,018 per pair, but the price is not what many critics found dubious.
  — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 29 Mar. 2021
• But even that rather dubious claim is not the real point.
  — Jocelyn Noveck, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2020
• Now all that was left was a dubious glide ratio and the promise of an open field.
  — Caroline Paul, Outside Online, 11 July 2018
• Even the kids who were dubious have come back for seconds.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 10 Mar. 2023
• From the start, Shea’s and Scott’s accounts seemed dubious.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
• These claims range from the highly dubious to the patently false.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2017
• Gone are most of the shops selling cheap souvenirs and bars with cheap but dubious drinks.
  — James Clark, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• But his claim that windmills pose a great threat to our avian friends is dubious at best.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• At the least, this means Trump made the dubious decision to hire a man with shadowy ties as a top aide.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Plus, the idea that wild bears could acquire a taste for felines seemed dubious to him.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
• Research is still in progress, but David Ross told me he’s dubious.
  — Ben Rowen, The Atlantic, 15 June 2018
• Even the most dubious cliché of the past century — the promise that the check’s in the mail — has fallen from common usage.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• But Williams was still dubious and blamed her for the changes Larry had imposed.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2022
• That may not be fair, especially in a case like this where the facts are dubious at best.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 7 July 2018
• So yes, there are admirable Democrats and dubious Democrats.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2021
• Rich people spend vast sums of money on things of dubious value all the time.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• But gambling on a craze, even a highly dubious one, can be about more than blind greed.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• The ethics of using prime farmland to grow fuel rather than food are dubious at best.
  — Brian Barth, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
• In terms of percentage price drops, though, the Nissan Leaf took the dubious honors, with a 30.6% year over year drop.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• The methods are dubious in both practice and rate of success.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2021
• Many were dubious when the studio announced plans to make a movie based on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
• Schulz’s murals wound up in Jerusalem in a more dubious fashion.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• Worse is when the science cited is so dubious as to be useless.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
• Its claim to fame was a dubious breakthrough, sort of the down-market flip side to the Pentagon Papers.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Not so long ago, that statement might have seemed dubious.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 5 May 2024
• Would a waiter, if the dubious pasts of his diners were revealed, be obliged to donate his tips?
  — Longreads, 3 Oct. 2017
• Whether firing into Russia would in itself change the course of the war is dubious.
  — Serge Schmemann, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
• And now insult me with the dubious claim about your self-serving fiction being more important than the truth.
  — Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
• Holding a New Narrative writer responsible for the behavior of a character in their work is dubious, though.
  — Oscar Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024