Doubtful

(adj.) fraught with uncertainty or doubt; 'they were doubtful that the cord would hold'; 'it was doubtful whether she would be admitted'; 'dubious about agreeing to go' .

(adj.) open to doubt or suspicion; 'the candidate's doubtful past'; 'he has a dubious record indeed'; 'what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false'; 'it was more than dubitable whether the friend was as influential as she thought'- Karen Horney .

(adj.) unsettled in mind or opinion; 'drew a few tentative conclusions' .

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• I don't disguise from myself, or from you, I went on, that the prospect before us is more than doubtful. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I felt some hesitation in suggesting rank as high as the colonelcy of a regiment, feeling somewhat doubtful whether I would be equal to the position. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Their failure to agree c aused the observer to reject one and mark the other as doubtful. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Still a little doubtful, because of her not looking at him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Explosions have occurred, however, in cases where it is extremely doubtful whether gas has been present in dangerous quantity, and attention has been drawn to the possible causes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But even if they tamed the horse, it is still more doubtful whether they rode it or had much use for it when it was tamed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mr. Bumble tasted the medicine with a doubtful look; smacked his lips; took another taste; and put the cup down empty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• He was not in the least doubtful of himself, as regards Gerald. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It is very doubtful if any single fingerprint will ever be exactly duplicated by any finger other than the one which originally made it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It is the ambiguity of language only which can make this proposition appear either doubtful or paradoxical. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It ain't that I object to being passed over for a stranger, though I regard the stranger as a more than doubtful customer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We must remember that in the time of Buddha it is doubtful if even the Iliad had been committed to writing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He bowed rather awkwardly, and turning from her with a stranger's embarrassment, he met the doubtful light from the window. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I was so doubtful of myself now, and put so much trust in him, that I could not satisfy myself whether I ought to refer to it when he did not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It is doubtful if it will take the fever again for a long time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But though this question be very important, it is not very difficult nor doubtful. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But it is more than doubtful if he had any such separation in mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Stephen looked doubtful. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Who began it, or how fair it was, or how unfair, may be doubtful; but how it ended is certainly not doubtful, for the victim was found throttled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But even to get the very doubtful and preliminary stage of making the appeal, seemed one of the least promising of human undertakings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• When the patient has been released in this doubtful manner, and is taken to Mr. Fairlie, does he recognise her? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It terminated like the former; though something approaching to a ray, we could not tell whence, shed a very doubtful twilight in the space. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Yer doubtful of her, are yer? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I noted down these particulars in my pocket-book, feeling as I did so both doubtful and disheartened about my next proceedings. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Nothing doubtful was discovered. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I could see no cause for any uneasiness or any doubt, but she had made me a little uneasy, and a little doubtful, nevertheless. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• So rude was the native culture of the Romans that it is doubtful whether they had any schools before the advent of Greek learning. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But whether he should succeed in that mode of contributing to the majority on the right side was very doubtful to him. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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