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[syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fishy \Fish"y\, a.
1. Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or
taste of fish; abounding in fish. --Pope.
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2. Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish;
improbable; also, rank or foul. [Colloq.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fishy
adj 1: of or relating to or resembling fish; "the soup had a
fishy smell"
2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the
accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely
queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect";
"suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady,
suspect, suspicious]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "fishy":
ambiguous, amoral, beguiling, blank, catchy, conscienceless,
corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, deadpan, deceiving,
deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, dishonest, dishonorable,
doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, eellike, empty, equivocal,
evasive, expressionless, fallacious, false, felonious, fraudulent,
funny, glassy, hallucinatory, ill-got, ill-gotten, illusive,
illusory, immoral, impassive, implausible, improbable, indirect,
inexpressive, insidious, misleading, not kosher, odd, peculiar,
piscatorial, piscatory, pisciform, piscine, poker-faced,
problematic, queer, questionable, rotten, selachian, shady,
shameless, sharkish, shifty, sinister, slippery, strange, suspect,
suspicious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, uncertain, unconscienced,
unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical,
unexpressive, unlikely, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous,
unstraightforward, vacant, without remorse, without shame,
wooden