Sentence examples for a dubious undertaking from inspiring English sources

No one is apparently concerned with whether or not the intervention was a good idea, because if it's determined to have been a dubious undertaking it could get in the way of those whose ambitions include undertakings that are even more dubious.

Still, paying for France to reclaim its colony just as the world was about to experience a wave of decolonization was a dubious undertaking.

Extracting a workable piece of entertainment from "Molloy," "Malone Dies" and "The Unnamable," three Beckett novels published in the early 1950s and generally grouped as a trilogy, might at first seem a dubious undertaking.

On Marcel Breuer's plan for a tower over Grand Central Terminal, which was ultimately rejected by the Landmarks Preservation Commission: "Mr. Breuer has done an excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it weren't awful".

If that is the case then this is morally dubious undertaking.

Is it a dubious endeavor?

"A dubious distinction," Pooley laughs.

His father, Morris Gershovitz, was a dubious patriarch.

That was a dubious choice of gift.

Again, this is a dubious claim.

That was a dubious bet at best.