fishy
adjective/ˈfɪʃi/
/ˈfɪʃi/
(comparative fishier, superlative fishiest)
- (informal) seeming or likely to be wrong, illegal or dishonest synonym suspicious
- There's something fishy going on here.
- I don’t know what they’re up to. It sounds a distinctly fishy business.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- very
- definitely
- a little
- …
- something fishy
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- smelling or tasting like a fish
- What's that fishy smell?
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