单词 | questionable |
释义 | questionable (kwestʃənəbəl ) adjective If you say that something is questionable, you mean that it is not completely honest, reasonable, or acceptable. [formal] He has been dogged by allegations of questionable business practices. It is questionable whether the expenditure on this project is really justified. The film is a comedy in highly questionable taste. Synonyms: dubious, suspect, doubtful, controversial Collocations: questionable behaviour They also dropped people for questionable behaviour or unconventional attitude. Times, Sunday Times However, this leads to a state of mind that on the face of it acquiesces and tolerates what once might have been thought of as questionable behaviour. Times, Sunday Times Faced with claims of questionable behaviour going back a decade or more, it's been one rule for one presenter and a different standard for another. The Sun That stimulates hard work, but unless carefully policed it's almost bound to push staff into questionable behaviour. Times, Sunday Times Truly, there's a lot of angst and frustration to be undergone, a lot of missed opportunities, wrong turnings and questionable behaviour to recall, before things start to look up. The Times Literary Supplement I've used some of those questionable methods myself over the years. Times, Sunday Times All the questionable methods highlighted in these programmes are as a direct result of the big supermarkets' obsession with profit margins. The Sun By using such questionable methods, the tax authorities were no better than the criminals they were trying to catch. Times, Sunday Times For there will not be one that hasn't cut corners or used what will seem to some questionable methods to pursue a story. Times, Sunday Times They most notably meet with a group of radicals with originally noble goals but questionable methods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were a lot of questionable tactics to say the least. The Sun The party has a large repertoire of questionable tactics when campaigning. The Sun You just have to put up with questionable tactics in games like this. The Sun The jury takes the attorneys to task for questionable tactics. The Scientist The commission also uncovered a range of questionable tactics employed by the big operators to prevent their dominance from being cracked by newcomers. Times, Sunday Times I expect some rolled their eyes at the questionable taste of a young couple who bought a £600 diamond robot pendant for their two-year-old son. Times,Sunday Times Party guests were required to turn up in military uniforms, some of which were in questionable taste. Times, Sunday Times Was this a radical, fascinating fragmentation of human expression or tiresome pretensions in questionable taste? Times, Sunday Times Are these cruises and the hullabaloo in questionable taste? Times, Sunday Times The series has been the subject of controversy due to the questionable taste of some of the experiences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The vote was based on 31 specific complaints identified by the faculty union, including questionable use of university funds, poor leadership style and poor decision-making. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It mixed official and private letters, and made questionable use of its sources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Panorama claimed to have exposed questionable uses of private detectives by newspapers, then had to admit to using private detectives itself. Times, Sunday Times But over the past 20 years, it became renowned — and certainly made most of its profits — from more esoteric stuff of more questionable value. Times, Sunday Times But their effectiveness varies, and because they can cost more than 600, some are of questionable value. Times, Sunday Times Some analysts warned, however, that much of the intelligence was of questionable value. Times, Sunday Times These deals generated questionable value; laboratory boffins seldom like being merged with their rivals. Times, Sunday Times Many have pointed not only to the dangers that uncontrolled dredging could pose, but to its questionable value. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 可疑的 Japanese: 疑わしい |
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