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questionable

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin" [ant: unquestionable ] able to be refuted [syn: refutable , confutable , confutative ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "that may be interrogated;" c.1600, "open to dispute, doubtful," from question (v.) + -able . Deprecatory sense of "dubious in character" is attested from 1806. Related: Questionably .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a questionable assumption (= one that is likely to be wrong ) ▪ That assumption was obviously highly questionable. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ Whether that is so in other societies, which is highly ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context obsolete English) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry. 2 problematic; open to doubt or challenge. 3 Of dubious respectability or morality.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Questionable \Ques"tion*a*ble\, a. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.] Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. -- Shak. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; ...

Usage examples of questionable.

But premises so strongly geo- and anthropocentric were of questionable value.

What was most astonishing to Armstrong was that Blitzkrieg appeared to have no notion whatsoever that his score for the front nine was in any way questionable.

Saddler thought it in questionable taste to exhibit a poor microcephalic idiot that way.

Even after one learns to recognize the highly questionable practice of morphological dating, one may be astonished to note how frequently it is used.

The two perissodactyl mammals started playing catch with the Marlin Perkins impersonator who had led a questionable life before going to Hell.

And it was questionable, she thought, whether she could have stopped Quelt anyway.

I do not commit myself against this, further than to say that such a ratification would be questionable, and sure to be persistently questioned, while a ratification by three fourths of all the States would be unquestioned and unquestionable.

Abandoning seership for rulership, he gradually, despite his most strenuous efforts to retain it, lost the mystical vision which had given him his spiritual authority -- but not, unfortunately, before he had covered with that authority many acts and policies of the most questionable nature.

Covered in patchy grey fur, it was wearing stripy socks and a brightly coloured waistcoat of questionable taste.

As for arch-bishops, arch-deacons, deans, rural deans, and all the other worldly machinery which has been superadded to the church, the truth compels us to add, that our divine felt no especial reverence since he considered them as so much clerical surplusage, of very questionable authority, and of doubtful use.

Miss Ross walked defiantly on, keeping her place on the trottoir with a grim determination not to be pushed off it by all the voyous in Paris, and though his presence was, as he well knew, entirely superfluous upon the occasion, he could not pay her the questionable compliment of leaving her to prove her independence alone.

There was an exchange of questionable compliments betwixt the officer and the Count, whereafter, to avoid further unpleasantness, Castelroux conducted me to a private room, where we took our meal in gloomy silence.

But before leaving York, Adams had been told by Elbridge Gerry that he was to be appointed a commissioner to France, in place of Silas Deane, who was being recalled to answer charges of questionable conduct.

The town was already jammed with immigrants, and people were starting to build on hillside areas that Anse himself thought were questionable at best.

Behind it were acres of pine woods, her private land, so the need for an elaborate backstop was questionable, but she did not want to shoot anyone.