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doubtful adjectiv

1. (despre persoane) îndoit (în sinea sa), nehotărât, nesigur;

I am doubtful of his words nu mă încred în vorbele lui;

we are doubtful of his success ne îndoim de succesul lui.

2. nesigur, neprecis, îndoielnic, greu de definit; discutabil, ambiguu; obscur;

a doubtful case un caz discutabil;

it is doubtful whether este îndoielnic dacă.

3. dubios, suspect;

(fam.) a doubtful fellow un muşteriu suspect.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But it was not her business to think for me, or to seek a place for me: besides, in her eyes, how doubtful must have appeared my character, position, tale.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She looked at him hastily, and for the first time, as if she were doubtful of what he had said.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And I promise you, too, that I shall make all certain, for if I am only doubtful I shall take it that the time has come!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Perceiving her still to look doubtful and grave, he added, Though Frederick does not leave Bath with us, he will probably remain but a very short time, perhaps only a few days behind us.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

But whether he were entirely free from peculiar attachment—whether there were no actual preference—remained a little longer doubtful.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He had been doubtful at first whether to take Littimer or not, but decided to leave him at home.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There are moments when the extent of it seems doubtful; and till his sentiments are fully known, you cannot wonder at my wishing to avoid any encouragement of my own partiality, by believing or calling it more than it is.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

A man, sitting in a pigeon-hole-place, looked out of the fog, and took money from somebody, inquiring if I was one of the gentlemen paid for, and appearing rather doubtful (as I remember in the glimpse I had of him) whether to take the money for me or not.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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