dubious
adjective
doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt.
dubiousness
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a word derived from
dubious.
Example Sentences
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The price decline probably also reflects a dubiousness that rescheduling will actually happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
The Globes still project some reputational sheen as a bellwether for the Oscars race, or it used to, which lends additional dubiousness to its new categories introduced for the 2024 show.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2023
Kurt Krause, a lawyer representing one of the fake electors, John Haggard, said in court Thursday that “the probability of conviction is low, given the dubiousness of the factual basis asserted by the government.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
An exact timeline for the rollout of the update was not given and Samsung did not address the dubiousness of popular benchmarking apps being excluded from throttling.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2022
I did not overlook the evils of constraint and the dubiousness as to the character of the master I should choose.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
