Sentence examples for dubious privileges from inspiring English sources

On and on, he moans: "Its website is the online equivalent of bargaining with a dodgy mechanic; only intense concentration will spare you from paying for dubious privileges like boarding minutes early ($TK) or choosing a seat ($TK).

Peres thus won the dubious privilege of becoming Labour's first-ever opposition leader.

Child killer Charles Warner has been given the dubious privilege of being the first to test it out.

What a dizzying and sometimes dubious privilege to be privy to the extreme passions on both sides of this conflict.

The only major title he lacks is the United States Open, where he has the dubious privilege of having finished second a record six times.

Even those coaches who have benefited from it have tried to dismiss it as a dubious privilege or even a poisoned chalice.

When will they realise the Iraq war was started specifically to avoid our having to host the contest, as is the winner's dubious privilege?

"And if someone wants to pollute his lungs and esophagus and bladder with tobacco smoke, he should have that dubious privilege as well".

Hull and Leeds have secured their play-off positions but are battling for fourth place, which earns the dubious privilege of a trip to Wigan next Sunday.

A 2013 study gives Skegness and Ingoldmells the dubious privilege of suffering most - with deprivation levels around two and a half times the average for England.

His actions have reportedly put him on the target list for manned aircraft or drone strikes – the only known US citizen to earn such dubious privilege.