The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dubiously \Du"bi*ous*ly\, adv. In a dubious manner.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 in a dubious manner 2 accompanied by doubt
WordNet
adv. in a questionable and dubious manner; "these were estates his father questionably acquired" [syn: questionably]
in a doubtful manner; "Gerald shook his head doubtfully" [syn: doubtfully]
Usage examples of "dubiously".
Tilting the parchments to catch the scant light of the nearby hearth, Alec bent dubiously to his task.
I looked dubiously at the tent, which was a large affair of waxed brown canvas, pale in the gloaming.
Shannon dubiously, glancing from Mick to Brewster, then back to Mick again.
Kitty echoed dubiously, but she assumed a demure expression, belied only by the sparkle in her dark, ex pressive eyes, and linked her arm in that of her brother.
He hurried his pace as he spoke, and glided along with such a curious, stealthy noiselessness that by and by Theos began dubiously to wonder whether after all he were a real personage or a phantom?
Isis wrinkled her nose dubiously, clearly unconvinced of any need to appease Roberta.
In the stern was Mugambi, and just in front of him squatted Akut, while between Akut and Tarzan the twelve hairy apes sat upon their haunches, blinking dubiously this way and that, and now and then turning their eyes longingly back toward shore.
Like so much in Canada, its spirit was Chekhovian, clothing in a present dubiously accepted, a regret for a past which had never been.
Before we had time to recover our spirits, we were indulged with some thought-reading by a young man whom one knew instinctively had a good mother and an indifferent tailor--the sort of young man who talks unflaggingly through the thickest soup, and smooths his hair dubiously as though he thought it might hit back.
Weaponeer looked dubiously toward the Termagants, then somberly back to Joaz.
I was grieved to hear these two worthy wights speak very dubiously of the eloquent dame who shows the Shakespeare house.
Jean looked dubiously at a shelf of pillows which said "Arrivederci Roma.
In its early years, it kept the old scholars of the Academy happily occupied in compiling a digest of human knowledge, the endlessly fascinating and dubiously reliable Encyclopaedia Babylonica.
Oh, thank you, ma'am--' She accepted a glass of brandy from Lady Belling ham, then looked at it dubiously.
The Bureau of Robotics was headquartered in Cheyenne, in line with the century-old trend toward decentralization, and Lynn stared dubiously at the young Security officer from Washington who had brought the news.