fishy

adjdoubtful, suspicious

Synonyms for fishy

adj doubtful, suspicious

Antonyms for fishy

counterfeit

adjective. fake, simulated

Word Origin & History

late 15c., from fish (n.) + -y (2). Sense of "shady, questionable" is first recorded 1840, perhaps from the notion of "slipperiness," or of giving off a bad odor.

Example Sentences forfishy

Not on your life; it was the slippery-looking cove with fishy eyes.

I followed them up a scale-strewn, fishy incline that led to the cannery.

What could have tempted her to play the part of a fishy thing?

Avoid 'fishy' mouths, too wide for their (the vases') hight.

"This has a fishy look to me, Hiram," said Clancy, after reading the letter.

Enemies said it was because we were flat, fishy, and rather expensive.

Not at all despised by the people of Cornwall in "fishy pie."

Footman brings me a young crocodile: fishy but very palatable.

No go, sir; just like one of them fishy things we get alongside.

Professor Sikofantis-Sauer gazed with his fishy eyes, as if he had heard all this before.

fishy

Synonyms for fishy

Antonyms for fishy

counterfeit

deceptive

devious

doubtful

dubious

fishy

Synonyms for fishy

Antonyms for fishy

More words related to fishy

Pecksniffian

counterfeit

deceptive

devious

doubtful

dubious