The phrase "a questionable cause" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a reason or justification that is doubtful or not well-founded.
Example: "The argument presented was based on a questionable cause, leading to a flawed conclusion."
Alternatives: "dubious reason" or "suspect justification".
But it's a questionable campaign slogan.
In the first scene of the Jeremy Corbyn story I picture him where he spent decades of relative obscurity before becoming Labour leader: in some forgotten meeting room, addressing the ragtag faithful of some questionable cause.
A tragic ballad with a biting sense of futility ("Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die"), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" became the ambivalent banner cry of this and so many subsequent wars of questionable cause.
Once a small fringe, this "alternative" information ecosystem now includes websites, talk-radio programs, newsletters, conferences and "citizen journalists" who promote, debate and inflate such questionable causes as vaccine denial, climate-change skepticism, and the supposedly imminent imposition of sharia law in America.
When he was allowed back, secret service agents kept a close watch on him, once finding $200,000 in cash in his briefcase, intended, they presumed, for questionable causes.Fear of French meddling can be overdone: French-speakers in Manitoba or New Brunswick can no more disrupt the federation than fly to the moon.
Bishop Daily and law enforcement officials said they were looking into many possible theories, including reports from parishioners that Monsignor Gradilone was exceedingly generous to questionable causes, or that he might have been duped into transferring church money to friends or parishioners who took advantage of his charity.
Since the beginning of February, California's 14 oil refineries have suffered 10 serious slowdowns or shutdowns, many due to questionable causes or timing.
Some hit the nail on the head and recognised the wider issues at play, whereas some believe the reason the list is light on females is the result of slightly more questionable causes.
