dubious value
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdubiousandvalue
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dubious
adjective
uk/ˈdʒuː.bi.əs/us/ˈduː.bi.əs/
thought not to be completely true or not able to ...
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value
noun
uk/ˈvæl.juː/us/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofdubiousandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, many of the species descriptions may be based on characters ofdubiousvalue.
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However, a problem with observer report when assessing samples of maltreated children is that maltreating parents are ofdubiousvalueas informants.
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Rauhut's approach to character choice is empirical and critical and, consequently, many oft-used characters are discarded or shown to be ofdubiousvalue.
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An immense amount of treatment is given which is ofdubiousvalue.
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Some of what is there appears to be ofdubiousvalue.
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As an instrument for protecting the public, the care order is ofdubiousvalue.
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In that context it seemed to me that the information that would be published would be ofdubiousvalue.
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A consumer watchdog will be ofdubiousvaluebecause manufacturers will probably get permission to increase prices as the prices of imported materials rise.
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The inescapable fact is that exports that are not paid for where the risks are high are ofdubiousvaluewhatever competitor countries do.
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The fact that direct reference is made to that concept makes the provision ofdubiousvalue.
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That is a constitutional and parliamentary proposition of extremelydubiousvalue.
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I would say that two extravagances, one ill-timed and the other ofdubiousvalue, do not justify a further degree of un-wisdom in a time of restriction.
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One of the things which has gone wrong is that there has been too little emphasis on teaching and too much encouragement of research, often of ratherdubiousvalue.
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The polytechnics could, with profit, take into technologically-oriented studies some, at any rate, of those now in universities, and particularly those now pursuing social studies of ratherdubiousvalue.
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A nightmare of bureaucracy has been created, and more and more time is spent on processing information ofdubiousvalueand reliability and less and less time on teaching.
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The various reports about his life are scattered among the writings of much later writers and are ofdubiousvaluein reconstructing his life.
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Various other differences in coverage and definition exist, so that inter-country comparisons are ofdubiousvalue.
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During those decades border radio was used by preachers who solicited donations, and advertisers who sold products ofdubiousvalue.
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The concentrated fire was ofdubiousvalue, since you were just as likely to get in each other's way as to hit the enemy.
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