fishy

Example Sentences

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If someone gave you a price that was too good to be true, or made the process completely frictionless, your brother might very well say, “Something is fishy here. It’s too easy.”

From MarketWatch

“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”

From Barron's

Fans often press him for the scoop on Trout, he said, with some version of this line: “You guys share the same fishy last name, and he’s Mr. Angel just like you.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I cannot say for sure, but something sure smells fishy,” Larson wrote in the email.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s the source of the smell of the sea, that sort of fishy, sort of eggy aroma that evokes deeply nostalgic reactions in, well, almost everyone.

From Salon