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fishy
adjective as in doubtful, suspicious
Example Sentences
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.”
“You know that something is ‘fishy,’” he wrote, “We will get to the bottom of it very quickly.”
Seabirds from all around were drawn to a frothy, fishy patch of ocean.
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.”
“I cannot say for sure, but something sure smells fishy,” Larson wrote in the email.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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