questionableness

noun

Definition of questionablenessnext
as in dubiousness

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  1. dubiousness
  2. shakiness
  3. unreliability
Noun
  • Kelley goes all-in too early (only a scene-stealing Leo Woodall, as an American solider with a secret, brings the appropriate level of dubiousness to the pair’s exchanges).
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Going off gold prompted mass dubiousness about currencies and sparked interest in currency hedges.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
Definition of dubiousness
Noun
  • Geopolitical shocks, economic shakiness and breakneck advances in AI have left many feeling unmoored, even pessimistic.
    — Aytekin Tank, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Indexes are near their records, even with the recent shakiness for AI stocks.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026
Definition of shakiness
Noun
  • As with Interview’s two seasons, the new offering is explicitly premised on the narrator’s unreliability.
    — Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026
  • America’s unreliability has become the driver of geopolitical instability, the thing every foreign ministry now has to plan around.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 25 June 2026
Definition of unreliability
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“Questionableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/questionableness. Accessed 1 Aug. 2026.

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