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'dubious example' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to express skepticism or suspicion about something or someone's actions or example. For example, "The claim that this policy was effective is based on a dubious example from just one study."
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For this reason, a suspension of disbelief that is achieved "willingly" is at best a highly dubious example of belief.
"For some psychological reason, liberals are antigun but not anti-violent criminal," was a typically dubious example.
Rather, as Terry Theise, a leading importer of German wines, recently said, "The omnipresence of dry wines within Germany is a dubious example of this country's temptation to do things in large, implacable blocs".
I've already written about one dubious example, in which the Colorado Highway Patrol and some local and national media perpetuated a story that a driver was high on pot when he slammed into a couple of police cars parked on an interstate exit ramp.
If that is meant to shame Barak for behaving in a less than masculine way in his hope that Deborah will accompany him, then it may be a dubious example - but, on the other hand, if it is a contention about honesty with regard to how we actually need and learn from one another, then I'll take it, as an exchange with relevance for our times.
A rare and dubious example of a doppelgänger which was both benign and reassuring is described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in his autobiography "Truth and Fiction" ("Dichtung und Wahrheit").
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There are certainly calls that do not merit a crime report: a victim's account of an alleged crime can be deemed dubious, for example.
The austerity thing was just invented out of thin air and a few dubious historical examples to serve the prejudices of the elite.
Such dubious territory, for example, should arguably not be navigated in what is essentially entertainment.
The banks that underwrote so many dubious loans, for example, received government aid to get them lending again.
The 1978 film, Brass Target, directed by John Hough, about Patton and the plot for gold in Nazi Germany, received dubious reviews, for example.
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