Synonyms for fishy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fish-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪʃ i |
Top 10 synonyms for fishy Other synonyms for the word fishy
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for fishy
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