Sentence examples for somewhat fishy from inspiring English sources

In contrast to the tender fluke, the daurade was dry and even somewhat fishy.

Groom's figures include a number of somewhat fishy guesstimates ("unreimbursed campaign expenses"), but as it happens, a much more credible scholar — former White House aide Bradley H. Patterson Jr. — attempted to figure out the tab for the White House for a book, "To Serve the President," published in 2010 by the Brookings Institution.

A somewhat fishy tale, but Hartford Insurance couldn't uncover evidence to dispute it.

The mushroom smells somewhat fishy; one source suggests the odour is "like a dead shad, which anglers will tell you is probably the most malodorous freshwater fish".

Sounds pretty fishy to me.

Something is slightly fishy, though.

But if the ratings were even somewhat close, it seems a little fishy that CityVille didn't take the #1 spot, and Facebook didn't disclose the actual rating scores or even that they were the core of the methodology.

One of the very interesting pastes is cuttlefish ($9.99), which is somewhat viscous and not at all fishy-tasting.

Seems fishy.

"Fishy, huh?

Why "fishy"?