dubious distinction Ruth Ellis has the dubious (= bad) distinction of being the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
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probably not true or not completely true; doubtful: The team had the dubious distinction of ranking 31st in the league. Dubious can also mean not to be trusted, or not completely moral: (Definition of dubious from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)Together, these reactions prepared the ground for new hypotheses to take root, regardless of how speculative or scientifically dubious they were.
Video games, television and music offer dubious lessons to boys who have been abandoned by their fathers.
The most dubious one is that starting your day off like this turns your body into a fat-burning machine.
They sell a ton of dubious health products at a significant markup, but let's focus on the stuff that goes into the coffee.
With the arrival of cooler weather comes the resurgence, in catalogs and department stores, of that most dubious of offerings: the two-piece set of pajamas.
Some will offer in-home setup, though the quality of this is dubious at best.Add it all up, and the cost of the dubious tests and medical interventions runs to about $6.8 billion a year.
Whether this state, or any other, has any power in this regard is dubious.Quickly, attention shifted to that security detail - former state police officers, some with dubious backgrounds.
Even with the right chemical, the impact of fogging is dubious.Church leaders sold everything from "indulgences" to people who wanted their sins pardoned to holy relics of dubious value.
One answer is that visions of technological utopias, despite their dubious claims to success and the darker visions that accompany them, still sell and compel.
Lowering stock price by divestment (a dubious proposition as universities just don't own that much) is not the same as lowering actual profits.
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