Antonyms for fishy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : fish-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪʃ i

Definition of fishy

Origin : late 15c., from fish (n.) + -y (2). Sense of "shady, questionable" is first recorded 1840, perhaps from the notion of "slipperiness," or of giving off a bad odor.

adj doubtful, suspicious

Example sentences :

Not on your life; it was the slippery-looking cove with fishy eyes.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

I followed them up a scale-strewn, fishy incline that led to the cannery.
Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling

What could have tempted her to play the part of a fishy thing?
Extract from : « The Mermaid » by Lily Dougall

Avoid 'fishy' mouths, too wide for their (the vases') hight.
Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 » by Various

"This has a fishy look to me, Hiram," said Clancy, after reading the letter.
Extract from : « Owen Clancy's Happy Trail » by Burt L. Standish

Enemies said it was because we were flat, fishy, and rather expensive.
Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain

Not at all despised by the people of Cornwall in "fishy pie."
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

Footman brings me a young crocodile: fishy but very palatable.
Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray

No go, sir; just like one of them fishy things we get alongside.
Extract from : « Jack at Sea » by George Manville Fenn

Professor Sikofantis-Sauer gazed with his fishy eyes, as if he had heard all this before.
Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory

Synonyms for fishy

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