Meaning of FISHY
| Pronunciation: | | 'fishee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (informal) not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" |
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| | Synonyms: | | funny, queer, questionable, shady, suspect, suspicious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fish"y\, a.
1. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or
taste of fish; abounding in fish. --Pope.
2. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish;
improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguous, amoral, beguiling, blank, catchy, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, deadpan, deceiving, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eellike, empty, equivocal, evasive, expressionless, fallacious, false, felonious, fraudulent, funny, glassy, hallucinatory, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive, illusory, immoral, impassive, implausible, improbable, indirect, inexpressive, insidious, misleading, not kosher, odd, peculiar, piscatorial, piscatory, pisciform, piscine, poker-faced, problematic, queer, questionable, rotten, selachian, shady, shameless, sharkish, shifty, sinister, slippery, strange, suspect, suspicious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unexpressive, unlikely, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, vacant, without remorse, without shame, wooden |
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