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adjective

Questionable adj.

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. (R.) "Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee."

Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious. "It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.T."

Synonyms: Disputable; debatable; uncertain; doubtful; problematical; suspicious.

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"Questionable" Quotes from Famous Books

... pouring out vital heat to a like number of inhabited planetary systems, the sheer quantity of life, of struggle, of suffering implied, seems a thought at which to shudder. We are inclined to say to the inventor of sentience: "Since this ingenious combination of yours was at best such a questionable boon, surely you might have been content with ...

— God and Mr. Wells - A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' • William Archer

... Shrove Tuesday, which in that year came about the middle of March. But as to that, it was generally conceded that they would. Youth, beauty, wealth and the shadow of an old family name could cover a multitude of such sins as rapid manners, desperate flirtations and a questionable origin; and notwithstanding her fastness, and, worse still, her ci-devant governess-ship, Mrs. Clement Rutherford was a ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... this translation,[1] it is very unlikely that, in the northern kingdom at any rate, with its frequent revolutions, court annals were continuously kept; the annalist could hardly have recorded the questionable steps by which his monarch often succeeded to the throne, though doubtless official documents were extant, capable of forming material for the subsequent historian. But in any case, the chronicles to which the book of Kings refers ...

— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen

... this be a character appropriate to a lofty didactick poem, is perhaps questionable. It presents a fair subject for controversy; and the question is to be determined by the congruity or incongruity of such a character with what shall be proved to be the essential constituents of poetry. But ...

— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... companions are the convives. We had some difficulty about stowing away the legs of a tall philosopher, and to each knife three individuals were told off; but the birds were not badly cooked, and the plum-pudding arrived in time to convert a questionable success into ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

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