The phrase "a questionable figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person whose credibility, motives, or actions are uncertain or dubious.
Example: "The politician was often seen as a questionable figure due to his controversial statements and actions."
Alternatives: "a dubious character" or "an unreliable individual".
Then, there were the headlines parroting a questionable figure that Sochi was the most expensive Olympics ever.
Jarecki, who wears a goatee so sketchy that it might as well be another suspect, could easily seem like a questionable figure, given his slick ability to plug his films as studies in ambiguity (his others include "Capturing the Friedmans" and "Catfish," which he produced).
The latter was still in use when I was a child, and I wondered about this strangely coded moniker alluding to a questionable figure at best and who, if she truly existed, automatically turned the mother who was raising me into an "unnatural" one.
A Questionable Shape by Bennett Sims.
But it is strange that Paris, the former red capital of France, should be so timid and not give its due to a central (if questionable) figure of the revolution.
The questionable figure appears in the report's overview.
But the list also includes a number of questionable figures, like Vladmir Putin, Ayotollah Khomeini, and… Adolf Hitler.
"These are questionable figures," said Anette Krame, labour market expert for the Social Democrats (SPD).
Our culture is incredibly aggressive towards the overweight, whether it's constantly parading (highly questionable) figures about how much they cost the NHS in the press, or the continual stream of Victorian-freak-show-esque weight-loss television shows.
Britain's official statistics watchdog has castigated the Government over David Cameron's citation of questionable figures purporting to show how many European Union migrants claim benefits in the UK.
An associate director at NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation, Kaufman is one of the leading voices on micro-mobility in the city, and a fierce critic of the e-bike crackdown, who has said the thinking behind it relies on questionable figures.
