dubious

CEFRC1

/ˈd͡ʒuː.bi.əs/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Probably not true, honest, or good.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

In disbelief; wavering, uncertain, or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt; undecided.
Arousing doubt; questionable; open to suspicion.

In context

After he made some dubious claims about the company, fewer people trusted him.
She was dubious about my plan at first, but later I managed to persuade her to cooperate.
They were renowned as people of dubious morals.

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There are several reasons why the line's future is now dubious. With the exception of Horsmonden, the stations are most inconveniently sited. This is largely because the Wealden villages were built on ridges, and in fact most Wealden stations are badly placed.
1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 173
Evasive, womanising, boastful, malicious, untrustworthy, an inveterate gambler who combined his mediocre military career with running a high-class brothel, permanently cash strapped and viciously quarrelsome, his character is as dubious as his unsavoury appearance.
2011 February, Nigel Jones, “A Tale of Two Scandals”, in History Today, volume 61, number 2, pages 10–17
Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2

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From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.).