dubious

adjective/ˈdubiəs/

Frequency rank: #7,729 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Hesitating or doubting; not to be relied upon; suspicious.

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Example sentence

The scientist was dubious about the results of the experiment because they seemed too good to be true.

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