Example sentences for: dubious

How can you use “dubious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Remind them, while you're at it, that even if they make the dubious claim that Jeff Bridges is a better actor than Jim Carrey, The Truman Show is a more effective movie with Carrey in it, because the audience walks into the theatre caring more about Carrey than about Bridges.

  • The Times of London carried a report from Bonn Wednesday that the Kosovo Liberation Army is "a Marxist-led force funded by dubious sources, including drug money."

  • The cover story is dubious about genetically altered farm crops.

  • I am myself conventionally "pro-choice," but I would think it a dubious procedure to make that the criterion of when it was illegitimate to invoke the Holocaust, reserving the mantle of legitimacy for causes--like humanitarian intervention, or the promotion of brotherhood and tolerance--of which I approve.

  • Only Variety 's Todd McCarthy notes that the premise--the Army expends ridiculous resources on a dubious rescue mission--is "far-fetched."


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