dubiously
English
Etymology
dubious + -ly
Adverb
dubiously (comparative more dubiously, superlative most dubiously)
- In a dubious manner.
- 1993, William J. Leonard, The Letter Carrier, page 218:
- They had perpetuated a dubiously holy union of Church and State that had refused for centuries to hear the cry of the poor and the oppressed.
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- Accompanied by doubt, or anxious uncertainty.
- 1997, Kelly Joyce Neff, Dear Companion: The Inner Life of Martha Jefferson, page 167:
- She looked dubiously up the steep path to the vastness of dark wood on either side. “How far is it up to the top?”
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Translations
in a dubious manner
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