fishy

strange, peculiar (situation)

TRANSLATION

suspekt, verdächtig, zweifelhaft

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"To every donor, he sent a letter thanking the person for the donation and asking for more money to keep up 'the hard and costly struggle against Communism.' As it turns out, the fight against Communism was quite inexpensive, and most of the money went into his bank account... If anyone dared to investigate this FISHY situation, they attacked his reputation and were branded as good as Red ."

(Report on Joseph McCarthy - QuakeWorld - Nov 1999)

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Here are some useful "fishy" phrases:

Something fishy is going on
He's a fishy character
That sounds/looks/feels fishy

Synonyms:

funny, queer, shady, suspect, suspicious

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