Sentence examples for felt dubious from inspiring English sources

My own reason for not, in the end, doing so was that I knew myself to be too frivolous for the necessary commitment, and there was also a streak of something more respectable in my motive: I felt dubious about ends justifying means, which I took to be an important part of Communist thinking.

Feeling dubious, I wandered over to the kitchen tent.

Timbuktu's appellation as a city feels dubious.

Nonetheless, there is something about Extremely Loud that does indeed feel dubious.

Hill says: "But I want the poem to have this dubious end; because I feel dubious; and the whole business is dubious".

He issued a statement in which, speaking on the behalf of the academy, he criticised Tolstoy for having "condemned all forms of civilisation... one feels dubious".

It is easy to feel dubious about whether this optimistic vision of the transformative power of dance will take off in London, which remains at heart reserved and staid in character.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to crack down on Republican filibusters several times with no effect, so it's hard not to feel dubious about his latest threat to change Senate rules if Republicans continue to block President Obama's nominations.

Citizens may not care all that much about where a farm subsidy goes, but they will expect a clear explanation of why their planes are dropping bombs and who is giving the orders.If governments still feel dubious about acknowledging the full role of the EU in national life, they should remind themselves of the line all of them peddled when they first got into the European game.

The recently updated Cochrane handbook [ 6] now gives overlapping rather than mutually exclusive regions for low, moderate and high heterogeneity, but when the heterogeneity is measured with as much uncertainty as in the Cervix 3 meta-analysis (90% reference intervals for of 0% to 93%) any categorisation feels dubious.

We felt as dubious as our cabdriver about 6, rue Sidi Mimoun.