fishy

Example Sentences

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"Also, we have corporate sanctioned mobile devices and this came in via his personal phone. So that made him think this was potentially a little murky, a little fishy."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Users of the new Moonshot model quickly noticed something fishy: Kimi K2.5 referred to itself as Claude.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

White said UFC confronted the fighter and his lawyer prior to the match and were given reassurances that nothing fishy was going on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

"Now they come out saying there are issues with the system. To me, it seems like there's something fishy going on," she said.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

He pouted his perfectly formed lips and surveyed the splintered shingles and abandoned nets from which the unsavory fishy smell arose.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee