This week’s obscure English word is dubiety.
It’s an eighteenth century word meaning uncertainty.
Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments, perhaps without the alliteration, using this word.
Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
This week’s obscure English word is dubiety.
It’s an eighteenth century word meaning uncertainty.
Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments, perhaps without the alliteration, using this word.
Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019
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Al-Maktoum, even in his grave, had no dubieties about his dubai-ety in the face of the depression caused by fake pearls in 1926. Later success, in the pearl-diving village, led to the saying, “Who needs POILS when ye gots OILS.” EHK EHK EHK EHK… (-Popeye)
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The inability to admit any dubiety must certainly indicate a myopic perspective.
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Sobriety in hand, Jacob started this new lease on life filled with dubriety.
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Re-reading this and I realize I didn’t even spell it correctly…*sigh*
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She set aside any feelings of dubiety and offered him a warm smile.
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Ignoring your word (us Brits are like that), I remembered “indubitably” last week and I’m now using it non-stop. Just to be extra posh.
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