Word: dubiously
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...supposedly virtuous high road of race preference has taken the nation into dubious terrain. America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
Even the most ardent Democrat must admit that open disrespect for the United States armed forces represents a dubious qualification to become the Commander in chief of those armed forces...
...charged The Crimson with racial prejudice. "If any entry--if every credit-card entry--is dubious, then any Black man with a credit card is just dangerous," said Reeves, the city's first Black and first openly gay mayor...
...undertaken exhaustive research. In fact, the book betrays a disturbing ignorance. The World Bank, for instance, does not squander money by making loans to poor nations "that will be paid back when the Pope sits shiva." Were it only so -- then the bank might stop making its ecologically dubious investments. Much of the recent criticism leveled at the institution has been that it makes too much money from those loans, not too little...
...promote their books in lectures at the Institute of Politics and at intimate heart-to-hearts in the Adams House Upper Common Room. Even worse, they suggest that we buy their books, now on window display at Harvard Book Store. Katie Roiphe and Elizabeth Wurtzel have both left their dubious high-heeled footprints around campus this fall, but neither PYT has carried away much of a following with her. (Exception: Some young women feel validated by a Roiphe or a Wurtzel, insisting that these two Harvard grads give voice to their own previously unvoiced opinions and sentiments. Whatever...