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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

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