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ques|tion|a|ble
ques|tion|a|ble «KWEHS chuh nuh buhl», adjective.
1. open to question or dispute; doubtful; uncertain: »

Whether your statement is true is questionable. The facts respecting him [Governor Van Twiller] were so scattered and vague, and divers of them so questionable in point of authenticity, that I have had to give up the search (Washington Irving).

 SYNONYM(S): debatable, disputable.
2. of doubtful propriety, honesty, morality, respectability, or the like: »

questionable behavior, the questionable associates of a gambler.

 SYNONYM(S): dubious.
3. Obsolete. (of a person) open to questioning: »

Thou comest in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee (Shakespeare).


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