dubious claim

The dubious claim from a position of authority worked in the long run.

The early days of car wax advertised some dubious claims.

A small constellation with dubious claims to a separate identity.

And then there's her dubious claim that Feminism is at the root cause of the "problem."

Most other dubious claims did not achieve majority acceptance in the battleground states.

After Marvell's death she laid dubious claim to having been his wife, from the time of a secret marriage in 1667.

We should beware the planners rushing too soon with dubious claims of expertise.

Which means that even if I reserve judgment over her more dubious claims, she's earned the benefit of the doubt.

Or I can lay a dubious claim to being the Macgregor.

But Halkin's book amounts to much more than this odd and, to my mind, somewhat dubious claim.

Czechoslovakia reached the quarter-finals on the dubious claim of one win and three draws.

They even produced a crudely fabricated map to back up the dubious claim.

Features of the imitation include mentioning "I have the documents" whenever a dubious claim is made.

Among his many dubious claims was that he had once been a surgeon in the Russian Navy.

"Nobody I have talked to knows anything about this guy, and all we have here are the dubious claims of a would-be manufacturer."

That seems like a pretty dubious claim.

Thus, the government was forced to rely on a dubious claim of an implied federal power in order to prosecute Wheeler and the others.

But why should either of those dubious claims to fame have caused the Emperor to send him a Sword?

This too is a dubious claim.

Non-negitiable overtime is a highly dubious claim without evidence and of course one person cannot do the work of two people, by definition.

Though this seems a dubious claim, and the ancient charter is in fact a 12th-century forgery, the full picture is more complex.

His work was also hobbled by the Justice Department, which repeatedly raised dubious claims of secrecy to deny him evidence.

One of the most dubious claims will center on the lack of job creation in the aftermath of their passage.

"That's my dubious claim to fame," Ms. Wagner says in her dressing room before rehearsal.

They also make the rather dubious claim that home chefs can duplicate the wood-oven effects in conventional ovens.