Sentence examples for dubious name from inspiring English sources

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The first is an Australian game which goes by the dubious name of Arsehole - the title bestowed on the loser.

I thought that was cool when I was a kid …" Music aside, the band's rather dubious name could, perhaps still be a sticking point.

A title on the video says it was produced by the Jihad Media Center in Afghanistan, which Middle Eastern officials said was a dubious name intended to disguise the identities.

This one wasn't called anything until we gave it the equally dubious name of Bloody Hell, which was what everyone exclaimed when they had to pick up the discarded pile.

Drancy, a Paris suburb that during the Second World War was the site of a transit camp from which Jews were shipped off to Auschwitz and Sobibor, now features a shopping center and a tram station bearing the dubious name Drancy-Avenir (Drancy-Future).

Word is in from our far-flung correspondent, Willing Davidson, formerly a colleague here on the editorial staff and now living in Stockholm, about what transpired at yesterday's auction of Ingmar Bergman's belongings: Bukowskis, despite its dubious name, is probably the foremost Swedish auction house.

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Correcting the BNP's fraudulent electoral roll, including 12.2m dubious names, according to the National Democratic Institute, will take several months.

Both bands are part of a scene — an aggregation of acts, really — saddled with no shortage of dubious names: chillwave, glo-fi, hypnagogic pop.

Usually, I exercise the franchise in a state of embarrassing, heart-swelling affection for the imperfect republic, my under-informed fellow-citizens, confused poll workers, even the dubious names on the ballot.

They considered most other names to be junior synonyms of those taxa, or as dubious names, based on remains too fragmentary to identify properly.

These include the above-mentioned Leptospondylus and Pachyspondylus, as well as Aristosaurus, Dromicosaurus, Gryponyx taylori and Hortalotarsus, which are dubious names of little scientific value.

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