Vocabulary
Dubious
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
not to be relied upon; suspect
Urdu meaning
مشکوک، مشتبہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- At admission, dubious lab reports brand them as users of ice or meth, yet no drug treatment follows.
- These dubious measures are meant to provide the ruling coalition a two-thirds majority in the House that would allow it to carry out more changes to the Constitution, thus further eroding the rule of law.
- Unbeknownst to many, the facility also has the dubious honour of holding the highest number of HIV-positive inmates in Punjab, as revealed recently by the Punjab Aids Control Programme.
- The last seems to reflect a concern that greater industrialisation may bring in meritorious rulers, and so dubious sectors are a better focus for the rulers` narrow interests.
- This is a dubious plan, which intends to replace Palestine`s two main representative parties with local Israeli collaborators that consist of armed gangs and looters with no credibility.
Synonyms
suspicious, suspect, under suspicion, untrustworthy, unreliable
Antonyms
trustworthy, decisive, clear, definite
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