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FISHY

looking or sounding suspicious
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1. They won’t say where they got their computer. Their story sounds fishy to me. I think they may have stolen it.
2. Someone called on the telephone telling me I had just won a free trip to Hawaii, but first I had to buy his or her product. It sounded pretty fishy, so I hung up.


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