Sentence examples for a dubious move from inspiring English sources

A famous player used to describe a dubious move by his partner as an error but a suspect decision by him as an E.I.J.

For example "!" indicates a good move, "!!" an excellent move, "?" a mistake, "??" a blunder, "!?" an interesting move that may not be best, or "?!" a dubious move not easily refuted.

Bauer's 2... Bb4 was a rare and somewhat dubious move, and Karpov was able to seize control of the center with 4 e4.

In annotating (commenting) on a game, an appended exclamation mark means a very good move, two exclamation marks are occasionally used to indicate an extremely good move, a question mark indicates a bad move, two question marks indicate a blunder, and the combination of an exclamation mark and a question mark on the same move indicates a double-edged or somewhat dubious move.

The timing of that accusation makes Trump's decision to bring Flynn to his first briefing a dubious political move.

Uneasy, appa antly, about this costly and dubious move, the bank then hastily rigged up a display for its patrons--an exhibit of photographs of Old New York, including, of all idiotic things, several photographs of its own abandoned interior.

They either make the dubious move or remain on the tiny island, in conditions deplored by UNHCR, waiting for a better offer or a change of Australian policy.

Just in the last three days, that has included reports that President Trump has discussed the legally dubious move of trying to fire the Fed chairman Jerome Powell, efforts by administration officials to play down that possibility, and a renewed presidential Twitter attack Monday morning.

This division has given Platonic division a bad name, and there is much to query (see Dorter 1994: 181 91), but perhaps the most obviously dubious move comes at the end: according to the division, the swineherd has more in common with the statesman than with the cowherd and shepherd.

Each ill-planned and legally dubious move the Trump administration makes to change the enforcement system clogs up some part of the federal bureaucracy and makes it harder for the administration to achieve its stated goals.

In my opinion, the true test of these dubious "move right and win more voters" hypotheses isn't whether Republicans repudiate stupidly racist tactics and messages, but whether they repudiate sophisticated racist tactics and messages that amount to the same thing.