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  • 91incertitude — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hesitation, perplexity, misgiving; see doubt 2 , uncertainty 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A lack of conviction or certainty: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, mistrust, question, skepticism, suspicion,… …

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  • 92doubtfulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A lack of conviction or certainty: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, mistrust, question, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wonder. See CERTAIN …

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  • 93dubious — du|bi|ous [ˈdju:biəs US ˈdu: ] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: dubius, from dubare to be unable to decide ] 1.) probably not honest, true, right etc ▪ The firm was accused of dubious accounting practices. ▪ Many critics regard this… …

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  • 94dubious — 1540s, from L. dubiosus doubtful, from dubium doubt, neuter of dubius vacillating, moving two ways, fluctuating; figuratively wavering in opinion, doubting, doubtful, from duo two (see TWO (Cf. two)), with a sense of of two minds, undecided… …

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  • 95fishiness — n. strangeness, dubiousness; something suspicious; quality of consisting of fish; quality of being like fish; lack of expression, coldness …

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  • 96no doubt — without a doubt, lacking all dubiousness, for certain …

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  • 97underhandedness — n. secretiveness, slyness, dubiousness, cunning …

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  • 98dubious — [ dju:bɪəs] adjective 1》 hesitating or doubtful. 2》 morally suspect.     ↘of questionable value or reliability. Derivatives dubiously adverb dubiousness noun Origin C16: from L. dubiosus, from dubium a doubt , neut. of dubius doubtful …

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  • 99ambiguity — n. 1. Doubtfulness, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a term), indefiniteness, vagueness, obscurity, amphiboly. 2. Ambiguous, expression, double meaning, equivoke (or equivoque), double entendre …

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  • 100dubiety — n. (Rare.) Doubtfulness, dubiousness, uncertainty …

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