adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dubious honour (= something that you are not sure that you should be proud of )
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The city has the dubious honor of being the smoggiest city in the world.
(of) dubious/doubtful provenance (= used to suggest that something may have been stolen )
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artworks of doubtful provenance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Considering his own, highly dubious profession, Kirov had his own set of moral values.
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Honest answers to these questions suggest that the general assumption that growth in one country benefits the entire world is highly dubious .
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This means that many cylinder records surviving today have highly dubious provenances, as we shall see later.
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Much of the wealth and property acquired by these people is highly dubious from a legal standpoint.
more
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This in itself is why the panda's survival is becoming more and more dubious every year.
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There are more dubious politics than sensible economics in the budget deal negotiated by the White House and the Republican leadership.
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Why, though, have other more dubious initiatives been received so favourably?
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Others joined for even more dubious reasons.
rather
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Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support this explanation, apart from some rather dubious circumstantial evidence.
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It would have been a rather dubious double, as Garnett was making history.
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The East Kilbride team adopted a religious theme coming dressed as priests and nuns and some nuns of a rather dubious order!
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Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour.
somewhat
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The death under somewhat dubious circumstances of a racehorse belonging to his son was frankly the least of his problems.
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This suggests that theories linking football hooliganism to changes in working-class community life are based on a somewhat dubious history.
very
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Mirrors were still very dubious household items.
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There are some very dubious practices and we want to put a stop to them.
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Both of these ideas are very dubious .
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The whole thing was, he had to admit, in very dubious taste.
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Obviously genuine pieces, but of very dubious provenance.
■ NOUN
claim
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Czechoslovakia reached the quarter-finals on the dubious claim of one win and three draws.
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Few teams can make that dubious claim .
distinction
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Sarah, left alone, had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome.
honour
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I therefore inherited the dubious honour of making it available on loan to youth workers.
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Snows Ride, a local thoroughfare, was in all probability named in his dubious honour .
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Mr Edmond has the dubious honour of being tried by the District of Columbia's first anonymous jury.
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Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour .
pleasure
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A dubious pleasure because Jack, as in most of his activities, was unpredictable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Newsome failed to explain his dubious personal finances.
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The new strategy of stopping drug smugglers is untested and dubious .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Aside from its dubious cultural charm, there are serious structural weaknesses which may one day embarrass us.
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But the analogies which are used to justify the transition are dubious at best.
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Few teams can make that dubious claim.
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From somewhere nearby came a very dubious smell.
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I was a bit dubious at first, but I was hot and sticky and the water looked tempting.
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It would have been a rather dubious double, as Garnett was making history.
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Local people are dubious about whether that will ever happen.
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What dubious manipulation of the system would they use for their own political ends?