Sentence examples for seem fishy from inspiring English sources

The second time a woman appeared out of nowhere, to ululate and shout the praises of Hosni Mubarak in front of television cameras, something started to seem fishy.

Doesn't it seem fishy that he should become involved with Trotsky's secretary after writing an admiring interview with her master for the UK press?

It's much easier to say it in hindsight, but it did seem fishy that a Google acquisition of $400 million — pontentially kicking off a whole new area of business for the company in its nascent role as a network service provider — would be announced in the form of a press release from the company without any statement from Google.

Don't yell at your guests; this will make the situation seem fishy, and possibly arouse the police officers' suspicion that something illegal is taking place.

The whole thing seems fishy".

Among the flagged loans were those in which appraisals seemed fishy or the mortgages went to borrowers with credit scores far below acceptable levels.

In one case, he writes, "police searched the wrong house and still located evidence against the intended target".At least some of the evidence seems fishy.

The former Dolphins linebacker Zach Thomas told the Miami radio station WQAM that the line of inactive Jets players seemed fishy, too orderly, obviously instructed.

Although the ever-infamous "rent control!" claim was made, it still seems fishy that he would pay one-third of the average price.

The notion that algebra would ever be useful seemed fishy, but the grownups insisted: education, no matter how apparently arbitrary, leads to jobs.

"If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to [email protected]".gov