fishy

Marquis Brown always reports the job scams he encounters on LinkedIn and marks fishy emails for spam.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Which makes all the more striking that nothing fishy seems to be going on in the enforcement actions against Mr. Walter, which prompted the Lakers sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Whenever we find out that there's something dubious or fishy about a couple, we disqualify them," he tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

And T-Pain admitted he’s actually a #DoorDashPartner only after users began to smell something fishy.

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026

If there was anything fishy going on, I would denounce it.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

As soon as I arrived in Livingston Manor, a hamlet around 120 miles north of New York City, my life became notably fishier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Faced with some stiff competition, one savvy float-building team at this year’s Rose Parade still managed to reel in a Guinness World Record title by setting its sights on something decidedly fishier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026

That all makes sense on one level, but Angela Huffman, head of Farm Action—a nonprofit that campaigns against the corporatization of the food system—believes there’s something fishier going on.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2025

The kind from my coastal neck of the woods eats fishier things, and although I have never eaten one, I have eaten other seaside birds, and they can taste like low tide.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2021

Even fishier, according to the medical examiners, there was a two-hour gap between the estimated time of death and when the cop called it in.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Mackerel is among the fishiest of fish, so I’m stoked by the clean flavor of the silvery specimen I encounter at Barrel & Crow.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2015

Indeed, one of the fishiest things about this entire story is that the Hoax of Hollywood conference lasted just one day.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 13, 2013

I recently visited some great friends in the Florida Panhandle and got to hang out in Destin, one of the neatest harbors and fishiest towns on the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Baja, Calif. Baja and the Sea of Cortez, featuring Cabo San Lucas and the East Cape region, is perhaps the fishiest place on earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had learned to walk unruffled in the face of the most carping, suspicious and the fishiest of these batteries.

From Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber