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fishy

/fish-ee/US // ˈfɪʃ i //UK // (ˈfɪʃɪ) //

腥,腥臭,腥臭的,腥味

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    fish·i·er, fish·i·est.

    • : like a fish in shape, smell, taste, or the like.
    • : consisting of fish.
    • : abounding in fish.
    • : Informal. improbable, as a story; unlikely.
    • : Informal. of questionable character; suspicious: The sudden knockout was fishy.
    • : dull and expressionless: fishy eyes.

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Examples

  • If the skeptics at Nissenbaum’s talk were right, we reasoned, AdSense should smell something fishy with AdNauseam clicks and toss them back overboard.

  • On the morning after Election Day, Greg and Jenny Brethen, loyal viewers of Fox News who watched the channel religiously for almost 20 years, turned on their go-to morning show, “Fox & Friends,” and thought they saw something fishy.

  • Just because something isn’t found to be illegal doesn’t mean it’s not fishy.

  • Mussels are briny yet sweet and mild, with no “fishy” notes.

  • Protests that pass the test are promoted through the group’s social media network, while events that seem fishy will be reposted with “do not attend” stamped over the flier.

  • It was without doubt all very fishy, but Richard left no fingerprints.

  • The Israeli explanation of the Eilat attack seemed fishy from the get-go.

  • But there are several other elements in the alleged plot that smell fishy.

  • Plus, as a politician he knows how fishy this heart mumbo jumbo looks.

  • They were found in a motel room, along with a dead preacher, and there is something awfully fishy about the whole situation.

  • The east pier, as far as it was dry, was covered by the fashion and beauty—as well as by the fishy and tarry—of the town.

  • I don't like the look of this Krell, and his story about all the officers being killed in the explosion sounds fishy to me.

  • There's something fishy about this thing somehow, something fishy that includes Maria Fulton and Morley.

  • The redness of his face gave signs that he was not far from choking, and out of his fishy eyes there rolled genuine tears.

  • It is not a village; it is not more fishy than other towns along the shore; and I have never pitied myself for belonging to it.