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questionable
adjective
1 it is questionable whether such an attack could be effective | he indulges in jokes of questionable taste:
controversial, contentious, open to question, open to doubt, in doubt, doubtful, dubious, uncertain, unsure, debatable, in dispute, in question, arguable, problematic, problematical;
unverified, unprovable, unresolved, unsettled, undecided, equivocal, unconvincing, implausible, improbable, not definite, unclear, not obvious, apocryphal, spurious, borderline, marginal, moot;
informal iffy;
British, informal dodgy.
antonyms certain, indisputable.
2 some of his questionable financial dealings have been investigated:
suspicious, suspect, under suspicion, irregular, dubious, doubtful, odd, strange, not quite right, mysterious, murky, dark, shifty, unsavoury, disreputable, potentially dishonest, potentially illegal;
informal funny, fishy, shady, iffy;
British, informal dodgy.
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