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  • 1doubtful meaning — index ambiguity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2of doubtful meaning — index equivocal Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 3doubtful — doubtful, dubious 1. The constructions that follow doubtful correspond to the pattern outlined for doubt above, with whether and if still dominant but a that clause now increasingly common: • It is doubtful that in the right to life controversy… …

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  • 4doubtful — doubtful, dubious, problematic, questionable are comparable when they mean not affording assurance of the worth, soundness, success, or certainty of something or someone. Doubtful and dubious are sometimes used with little distinction. Doubtful,… …

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  • 5doubtful — I adjective arguable, at issue, conditional, conjectural, contestable, controvertible, debatable, disbelieving, disposed to question, disputable, distrustful, doubtable, doubting, dubious, dubitable, dubius, equivocal, implausible, improbable, in …

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  • 6doubtful — adjective Date: 14th century 1. giving rise to doubt ; open to question < it is doubtful that they ever knew what happened > 2. a. lacking a definite opinion, conviction, or determination < they were doubtful about the ad …

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  • 7doubtful — adj. 1 feeling doubt or misgivings; unsure or guarded in one s opinion. 2 causing doubt; ambiguous; uncertain in meaning etc. 3 unreliable (a doubtful ally). Derivatives: doubtfully adv. doubtfulness n …

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  • 8indistinct in character or meaning — index doubtful Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 9Unintelligibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) &LT; N PARAG:Unintelligibility &GT;N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 unintelligibility unintelligibility Sgm: N 1 incomprehensibility incomprehensibility imperspicuity Sgm: N 1 inconceivableness inconceivableness vagueness &c. &GT;Adj. Sgm …

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  • 10Preamble to the United States Constitution — We the People redirects here. For other uses, see We the People (disambiguation). United States of America This artic …

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