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    doubtful


    1. ” Minister Gordon was doubtful, “in all my years of dealing with Scathers, I have found only one constant… they are deceitful


    2. It is doubtful that she will attempt to initiate such intimacy again


    3. In order to satisfy ourselves upon this point, it will not be necessary to enter into any tedious or doubtful calculation of what may be the lowest sum upon winch it is possible to do this


    4. When the law does not enforce the performance of contracts, it puts all borrowers nearly upon the same footing with bankrupts, or people of doubtful credit, in better regulated countries


    5. Though it's doubtful we could repel them again, there's no need for them to repeat such an attack


    6. a person's situation is such, that it is doubtful whether he is actually removable or not, he


    7. I am, however, somewhat doubtful of the truth of if


    8. doubtful (a state could not be governed by the


    9. All indications, it is acknowledged, are doubtful; and the actual discovery and successful working of a new mine can alone ascertain the reality of its value, or even of its existence


    10. It is doubtful there are any more old records to exhume that have any more to say on this matter

    11. Looking doubtful and defeated, the Magi headed to the indicated area


    12. said, then the jury won’t consider any of these doubtful claims


    13. Though the drawer, acceptor, and indorsers of the bill, should all of them be persons of doubtful credit; yet, still the shortness of the date gives some security to the owner of the bill


    14. It was doubtful she was aware of using her gift, but I could see it


    15. To which of them so important a preference shall be given, must be determined by some general rule, founded not upon the doubtful distinctions of personal merit, but upon some plain and evident difference which can admit of no dispute


    16. "Is that so?" Griffiths looked doubtful


    17. The sending out a colony of this kind not only gave some satisfaction to the people, but often established a sort of garrison, too, in a newly conquered province, of which the obedience might otherwise have been doubtful


    18. Some years before this, while the expectations of Europe were in suspense about the projects of the Portuguese, of which the success appeared yet to be doubtful, a Genoese pilot formed the yet more daring project of sailing to the East Indies by the west


    19. Some will take action steps towards that direction whilst others will remain doubtful or fearful


    20. Though it may, perhaps, be more than doubtful whether half a million could by any economy be saved out of the present tolls, it can scarcely be doubted, but that a million might be saved out of them, if they were doubled ; and perhaps two millions, if they were tripled {I have now good reason to believe that all these conjectural sums are by much too large

    21. Though it should be true, therefore, what I apprehend is not a little doubtful, that in some parts of Asia this department of the public police is very properly managed by the executive power, there is not the least probability that, during the present state of things, it could be tolerably managed by that power in any part of Europe


    22. But in process of time, when the principles of liberty were better understood, it became every day more and more doubtful, how far a royal charter, not confirmed by act of parliament, could convey an exclusive privilege


    23. In doubtful cases such courts, from their anxiety to avoid blame, would naturally endeavour to shelter themselves under the example or precedent of the judges who had sat before them, either in the same or in some other court


    24. perhaps, natural to monarchies ; and, in time of war, has constantly acted with all the thoughtless extravagance that democracies are apt to fall into, could be safely trusted with the management of such a project, must at least be a good deal more doubtful


    25. But judging by his episode in the hospital with the bread knife she was doubtful


    26. It is a subsidiary fund, always at hand, to be mortgaged in aid of any other doubtful fund, upon which money is proposed to be raised in any exigency of the state


    27. It was very doubtful if the British


    28. The real guarantees of political freedom come to us in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments, without the promise of which it is doubtful that the Constitution would have been ratified


    29. The subject was doubtful with Carl however, who only ever saw the importance of faith based on ancient eyewitness accounts recited to second and third-hand witnesses


    30. “Sure, but that’s highly doubtful

    31. revealed anything, it was doubtful he’d have recognized it


    32. He looked doubtful, then said, “After, this is the ‘Herald’…


    33. She waked in the morning, with a queer, doubtful feeling


    34. In any event, it is doubtful that mastery over the material universe would lead any individual to recognize his or her immortal self let alone that individual‘s ―divine‖ self! Have I made myself clear?


    35. It seems they had all known I would pass with flying colours; it was only I that had been doubtful


    36. Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions; 'and besides, what would be the use of a procession,' thought she, 'if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn't see it?' So she stood still where she was, and waited


    37. If, that group of demonstrators reaches one million in number, which is very doubtful, more than 275 million do not seem to share the thinking of that minority: they have demonstrated their protest by staying home


    38. With engines being run up on test, it’s doubtful if they caught any of it


    39. It is doubtful there are more than fifty other individuals in all of human history who saved a comparable number of lives as Carter


    40. That last bit of information could not be easily confirmed and was a bit doubtful, seeing as it came from a member of the local press, the same one who had insisted that he had attended an Elvis’ Secret Moon Base Society ball; on the moon

    41. The optician looked doubtful, but slowly nodded his head


    42. In addition, it is very doubtful that any of these organizations or actions really help our cause


    43. Among those that had been declared apocryphal (of doubtful authenticity or authorship), many still competed for the attention of the faithful and would for a long time


    44. Without intercession it is doubtful to me that anyone could


    45. There is a good argument that modern human did not come from Africa, but developed differently in different places from a common source such as Homo Erectus (Ancient types that walked, had modern type hands but a small brain), or as some say, we were planted here from another planet or, or as some say placed here by a God The point is the evolutionary hypothesis is little more than speculation, complicated with doubtful DNA studies


    46. I am still somewhat doubtful about our friendship, and as I have suggested before in this journal, he and I are very different


    47. 7 When a man has done, then he begins; and when he leaves off, then he shall be doubtful


    48. “Really, is that so,” Akito didn't say anymore, but he screwed up his face like he was still doubtful


    49. Yet, it is doubtful that your friend the Gypsy thinks of her story as anything more than a fairy tale


    50. doubtful they had eyes to take it in anyway













































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    Synonyms for "doubtful"

    doubtful dubious dubitable in question tentative incredulous obscure enigmatic problematic puzzled undetermined indefinite indistinct borderline moot equivocal unclear clouded sneaky disreputable

    "doubtful" definitions

    open to doubt or suspicion


    fraught with uncertainty or doubt


    unsettled in mind or opinion