sospechoso-2
suspect ; fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.] ; shady ; dodgy ; fly-by-night ; dubious-sounding ; dubious ; under suspicion.
The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.
This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.
Moreover, the shady image of video libraries drove away discerning customers.
The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.
What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.
But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.
On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.
When war broke out against Germany, immigrants from that country were suddenly under suspicion of being possible enemy.
haber algo sospechoso con
there + be + something fishy going on with
I had a mechanic chap take a gander earlier on and he said it's possible the pedal itself is kaput, as in there's something fishy going on with the mechanics of it.
oler algo sospechoso
smell + a rat
smell + fishy
sound + fishy
'Something doesn't seem right, and I don't know exactly what it is, but I kind of smell a rat,' Cooper said = "Algo parece que no está bien, y no sé exactamente qué es, pero yo como que tengo la mosca detrás de la oreja", dijo Cooper.
Something smells fishy alright but I'm starting to think it's the smell of plans gone seriously awry.
It sounds fishy to me - I would steer clear of this and use your $850 to invest in a mutual fund.
que parece sospechoso
dubious-sounding
But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.
rueda de sospechosos
police line-up
identity parade
identification parade
This actually happened to a 19-year-old New Yorker who had been identified by a robbery witness during a police line-up.
This research investigated whether eye-witnesses were influenced by stereotypical criminal faces when faced with an identity parade.
The police can order any person arrested on any charge or released on bail to attend an identification parade.
