Example sentences for: dubious

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

  • Our quoted compliment employs the implicit tokenism of the definite article--"the woman"--the condescension of "girl," the dubious virtue of "talented," suggesting that her abilities were something she was born with, not something she earned.

  • Paul Krugman replies: A common currency per se has got nothing much to do with employment; the rules of Maastricht, which bear a dubious relationship to the actual requirements of such a currency, are another matter.

  • Some of these missions involve training foreign troops, even in countries like Pakistan, Indonesia, and Turkey which are under U.S. sanctions or whose militaries have dubious human rights records.

  • His support, the son's almost weary "OK, Dad" suggests, is a dubious privilege.

  • Of course, as always when Greenspan appears before Congress, it was fun to watch the senators try to make their own dubious economic views appear to be harmonious with the Fed chair's.


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