Dubious and Owing

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Dubious adjective - Giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged.

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Owing and dubious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Owing" instead an adjective "Dubious".

Nearby Words: dubiety, dubiousness, dubiously

Owing adjective - Not yet paid.

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Dubious and owing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dubious" instead an adjective "Owing".

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity (which did eventually get on GoG) wasn't in the compilation, perhaps owing to the game's dubious standing among the series fans, making it a case of Canon Discontinuity.

Source: Keep Circulating The Tapes / Rescued
Hellhole Prison: Just about any prisoner of war camp qualified as such, but Andersonville was perhaps the most notorious, owing to its dubious distinction of having the highest mortality rate of any POW camp, as well as the photographs of some of its former inmates (who resembled living skeletons).

Source: Useful Notes / The American Civil War

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