Dudoso in english
Doubtful
pronunciation: daʊtfəl part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: daʊtfəl part of speech: adjective
In gestures
dudoso = suspect ; dodgy ; doubtful ; dubious ; questionable ; suspicious ; suspicious ; unconvinced ; dicey ; uncleared ; iffy ; rocky ; borderline ; fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.] ; fly-by-night ; dubious-sounding ; controversial ; fluk(e)y .
Example: The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.Example: The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.Example: Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully.Example: On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.Example: It was questionable if the talent available was fit for the rather specific purposes of SLIS.Example: This can make them reluctant to accept or suspicious of outside help.Example: This program can also discover misconfigured or faulty applications that generate suspicious data traffic.Example: Many educators still remain unconvinced of the value of school libraries in the school.Example: Predicting the future is dicey.Example: Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.Example: I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.Example: The English is a little rocky on this lovely web site but we have it on good word that the original French is très bien.Example: An indication that the Commission would be prepared to accept a borderline project would provide a useful lever when the application is passed to the UK Government.Example: This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.Example: What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.Example: But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.Example: The last 3 years while grants were available saw a rise in loans, readers and outreach services, a controversial stock revision and scrapping were carried out and a PC was taken in use.Example: Really, we're all sure you're wonderful but your flukey dog has less to do with you and more to do with genetic weirdness than anything else.more:
» con dudosa reputación = disreputable .
Example: Items from disreputable publishers may be ignored, whereas items from the respected publishers would always be abstracted = Los documentos de editores de dudosa reputación se podían ignorar, mientras que los de editores respetados siempre se resumían.» conseguido de manera dudosa = ill-gotten .
Example: Young people are exposed to adults with ill-gotten material possessions & begin to question whether personal honesty pays off in the long run.» estar dudoso = be doubtful ; be in/of [USA] two minds (about/whether or not) .
Example: This pie-in-the-sky solution is a long way off and I am doubtful that it will really solve the problem of tieing individual records into the authority file. Example: I have long been of two minds about the relationship of form and content.» proceder dudoso = unfair practice .
Example: For the record, schools and libraries in the late 1960s recovered in excess of $10,000,000 from publishers and wholesalers as a result of unfair practices highlighted by Mr. Scilken.» que parece dudoso = dubious-sounding .
Example: But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.» ser dudoso = be doubtful .
Example: This pie-in-the-sky solution is a long way off and I am doubtful that it will really solve the problem of tieing individual records into the authority file.