dubiously

How To Use dubiously In A Sentence

• Can't be too pedicular in a pinch," he grinned as he wriggled dubiously into the dry garments, and in a few minutes he was seated beside the girl upon a rough bench drawn close to the fire. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
• Helen looked on Miriam as a pretty ornament or toy, and Miriam gazed dubiously at what she called the piety of the other. Moor Fires
• The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2
• Not but what it’ll be a kind of busman’s holiday for you,’ he finished up, rather dubiously. Busman's Honeymoon
• They're not actually rude or deliberately slack (unlike some of the Cafe Uno staff), just dubiously competent.
• Plus I get to enjoy the fine form of the capable Mariska Hargitay playing the soft, yet dykey, and dubiously heterosexual, Detective Olivia Benson saving the world, one special victim at a time. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
• With an expression perfected from years of successful begging on the streets of the Windy City, he eyed Walker dubiously. Lost And Found
• Yes, this is a silly monster flick and yes, we have two dubiously-identified heroes, and yes, Elvis goes after the mummy wearing a white sequin jumpsuit and cape. Play it again, Sam
• Sam looked dubiously at the large oval mirror on the desk, as Ryan set blue candles around it.
• Even her eye doctor, if he was to be believed, had floaters; Helen regarded him dubiously; she knew him for a bit of a joker.