fishy

"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

To help cut down the fishy smell, top the fish with your choice of acid, like fresh lemon juice or rice vinegar.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

Often smeared on hot buttered toast, it tastes like a fishy, peppery paté, befitting the mock Latin name Osborn gave to it, Patum Peperium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 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

Fish vary in their omega-3 levels and generally the fishier they taste the more omega-3 fats they have — such as tuna, salmon, deep sea perch, trevally, mackeral and snook.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2023

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 never seen a pack o’ fools look fishier; and you may lay to that, if I tells you that looked the fishiest.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson