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Synonyms & Antonyms of fishy
giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged
- something's fishy about the way he's acting
Synonyms for fishy
- debatable,
- disputable,
- dodgy
- [chiefly British],
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- equivocal,
- problematic
- (also problematical),
- queer,
- questionable,
- shady,
- shaky,
- suspect,
- suspicious
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“Fishy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fishy. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
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