Word: dubiously
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...light of Clifford's current troubles, his reflections on Fortas are heavy with irony. "What had driven a man of such exceptional intelligence to bring himself down through such dubious financial arrangements?" he asks. His answer: Fortas "wanted both the glory of public service and the wealth of a successful private lawyer...
...Manifest Destiny in the paintings of, say, Albert Bierstadt -- the tiny wagons advancing into those golden floods of light from the westering sun, the absence of opposing Indians, the implicit approval of Jehovah himself -- you still have to decide how good they are as art. This is why the dubious orthodoxy of art-historical deconstruction is so popular. It aborts the problem by collapsing everything into ideology and fatuously claiming that the idea of "quality" is either meaningless or oppressive. It appeals to sanctimony and makes the stuff easy to teach. It lets academics feel radical. Above all, by recognizing...
...report, produced after a year-and-a-half-long study by Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and her associates, sheds little new light on the question. Instead, it delivers the same old line about female undergraduates possessing "dual citizenship with full privileges in both colleges." This claim is dubious, at best. For some women students, the joint Harvard-Radcliffe diploma they receive at Commencement is the extent of their involvement with Radcliffe. Somehow that doesn't quite seem like dual citizenship...
...phase out or scale down in order to save $850 million. Angry lawmakers protested that the closings would cause irreparable economic harm to their districts and vowed to thwart them. But since none of the bases is considered essential to national defense, they fall into the category of pork: dubious spending programs that Congressmen support to curry favor with the folks back home...
...catfish that oinks and other tales of how Congress wastes money on dubious projects...