Sentence examples for dubious jokes from inspiring English sources

They aren't the kind of people who post explicit photographs, express extreme views, or exchange dubious jokes.

What it does not want is me playing records I have brought in from home and swapping dubious jokes with my mates.

The presenter had always had a penchant for making dubious jokes: it was so much his stock-in trade that his semi-autobiographical 2008 book was called Why Do I Say These Things?

The Romney sons have also strayed off-message, notably when making a dubious joke about the reality of Obama's birth certificate.

Prepare for dubious talk-show jokes when Barack and Michelle Obama hold a state dinner tomorrow for the President and First Lady of Mexico.

To most of its first reviewers it seemed like an extended joke in dubious taste, but when a friend referred to it as "a grim jest" Trollope gripped him by the arm and exclaimed: "It's all true – I mean every word of it".

We may be suspicious of lyricism and dubious of a gripping plot, but jokes — jokes are for real.

However, others who hear how the contest turned out may wonder whether the winner will react — to paraphrase the old joke about dubious victories — by asking whether the second prize was $2 million worth of full-page newspaper ad space.