doubt, accuracy, disbelieve, dubious, studded with red flags

 

Abroad they negotiate. At home the casualties mount. An attack by Colombia's FARC guerrillas on a police station on December 7th left nine people dead. This gave many already-dubious Colombians another reason to doubt the guerrillas' real intentions in ongoing peace talks in Havana with the government to end the country's 50-year internal conflict http://econ.st/J1tKbp

 

Accuracy of James Murdoch's Hacking Testimony In Doubt

British lawmaker calls for new police probe into whether the News Corp. exec knew of widespread hacking.

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Russia's Dubious Vote

Results from Russia's parliamentary vote earlier this month are studded with red flags that suggest broad electoral fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.

stud

(stŭd)
n.

1. An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath, wallboard, or similar material.
2. A small knob, nail head, or rivet fixed in and slightly projecting from a surface.
3. 1. A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt.
   2. A buttonlike earring mounted on a slender post, as of gold or steel, for wearing in a pierced earlobe.
4. 1. Any of various protruding pins or pegs in machinery, used mainly as a support or pivot.
   2. One of a number of small metal cleats embedded in a snow tire to increase traction on slippery or snowy roads.
5. A metal crosspiece used as a brace in a link, as in a chain cable.

tr.v., stud·ded, stud·ding, studs.

1. To provide with or construct with studs or a stud.
2. To set with studs or a stud: stud a bracelet with rubies.
3. To be scattered over: Daisies studded the meadow.

[Middle English stode, from Old English studu.]

doubt
(dout)

v., doubt·ed, doubt·ing, doubts. v.tr.

1. To be undecided or skeptical about: began to doubt some accepted doctrines.
2. To tend to disbelieve; distrust: doubts politicians when they make sweeping statements.
3. To regard as unlikely: I doubt that we'll arrive on time.
4. Archaic. To suspect; fear.

v.intr.
To be undecided or skeptical.

n.

1. A lack of certainty that often leads to irresolution. See synonyms at uncertainty.
2. A lack of trust.
3. A point about which one is uncertain or skeptical: reassured me by answering my doubts.
4. The condition of being unsettled or unresolved: an outcome still in doubt.

idioms:
beyond (or without) doubt

1. Without question; certainly; definitely.

no doubt

1. Certainly.
2. Probably.

[Middle English douten, from Old French douter, from Latin dubitāre, to waver.]

doubter doubt'er n.

USAGE NOTE Doubt and doubtful may be followed by clauses introduced by that, whether, or if. The choice among these three is partly guided by the intended meaning of the sentence but is not cast in stone. Whether normally introduces an indirect question and is therefore the traditional choice when the subject is in a state of genuine uncertainty about alternative possibilities: Sue has studied so much philosophy this year that she has begun to doubt whether she exists. Similarly, when doubtful indicates uncertainty, whether is probably the correct choice: At one time it was doubtful whether the company could recover from its financial difficulties, but the bank loan has helped. On the other hand, that is the choice when one uses doubt as an understated way of expressing disbelief: I doubt that we have seen the last of that problem, meaning "I think we haven't seen the last of that problem." That is also the usual choice when the truth of the clause following doubt is assumed, as in negative sentences and questions. Thus I never doubted for a minute that I would be rescued implies "I was certain that I would be rescued." By the same token, Do you doubt that you will be paid? seems to pose a rhetorical question ("Surely you believe that you will be paid"), whereas Do you doubt whether you will be paid? may express a genuine request for information and might be followed by because if you do, you should make the client post a bond. In other cases, however, this distinction between whether and that is not always observed. If may also be used as a substitute for whether but is more informal in tone. • In informal speech the clause following doubt is sometimes introduced with but: I don't doubt but (or but what) he will come. Although modern critics sometimes object to its use in formal writing, reputable precedent exists for this construction, as Richard Steele's remark "I do not doubt but England is at present as polite a Nation as any in the World." See Usage Notes at but, if.

[動](他)

1 〈人・事を〉疑う, 信用しない

doubt a person's honesty
人の誠実さを疑う

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
((ことわざ)) 無知な者は何も疑わない.

2 ((主に話))［III that節/wh-節］〈…を〉疑問に思う, 信じない, 〈…で〉ないと思う. ▼肯定文でwhether, if, that節, 否定文で(but) that節. ⇒ANYTHING 1[語法]

I doubt whether ［if］ he will succeed.
彼は成功するかどうか怪しい（▼ifのほうがくだけた言い方）

I doubt that ［＝I do not think that］ I'll be able to come.
来られないと思う

I do not doubt （((文))but） that you will win.
あなたの勝利を信じている

“Will she come？” “I doubt it. ”
「彼女来るかなあ」「来ないんじゃないの」（▼doubtが先行文を目的語とする場合, 代用形はsoではなくitを用いる）.

[類語]doubtはあることがそうではないのではないかという否定的な意味合いのほうに引き寄せて考えること. suspectは逆に, あることがそうであるのではないかという肯定的な意味合いのほうに引き付けて考えること. したがって, I doubt that he stole it. は彼の嫌疑を否定する意見であるのに対し, I suspect that he stole it. は彼に対する盗みの嫌疑を肯定する見解になる.

3 ((古・方言))〈…を〉心配する, 気づかう((that節)).

━━(自)［I（[副]）］（…を）疑う, 疑わしく思う, （…に）疑惑をいだく, （…を）怪しむ((of, about ...))

He never doubted about victory.
彼は勝利を確信していた.

━━[名]

1 [U][C]（…かどうかの）疑い((if, whether節))；（…という）疑惑, 疑念((that節))；（…についての）不信((about, as to ...))

an element of doubt
かすかな疑念

a shadow of doubt
疑惑の影

cast doubt(s) on ［＝raise doubts about］ ...
（事・人が）…に疑いをいだかせる

entertain doubts about ［as to］ ...
…に疑いをいだく

have some doubt about ［as to］ ...
…にいくらか疑念をもっている

clear up doubts
疑いをはらす

make no doubt of ...
…を疑わない

I have no doubt that it will snow.
きっと雪が降る（▼not, noに続く節はthat, それ以外はwhether, if： There is some doubt whether it will snow. 雪が降るかどうか今ひとつはっきりしない）.

2 [U]疑わしさ, 不確かさ, 不明確

There was doubt concerning the genuineness of the painting.
その絵は本物かどうか怪しまれていた.

beyond (a) doubt

疑いもなく, 確かに, 明らかに.

in doubt

(1) （…を）疑って, 迷って((about, as to ...)).
(2) 不確かで

The result is still in doubt.
結果はまだわからない.

no doubt

(1) 確かに, きっと.
(2) たぶん, おそらく.
(3) ((文修飾))((butやyetと呼応して))なるほど［確かに］…だが

No doubt you are right, but others don't agree.
なるほどおっしゃるとおりですが, 他の人たちが賛成しません.

open to doubt

〈事が〉疑わしい.

out of (all) doubt

疑いもなく, 明らかに.

without (a) doubt

((形式))疑いもなく, 確かに.

［古フランス語←ラテン語dubitāre（2つの心をもつ→意見が定まらない）. △DOUBLE, DUAL, DUBIOUS］

doubt・er

[名]

disbelieve	(verb) Reject as false; refuse to accept.
Synonyms:	discredit
Usage:	He was inclined to disbelieve her story, but she had several documents to support her claims. dubious (dū'bē-əs, dyū'-) adj. Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; undecided. Arousing doubt; doubtful: a dubious distinction. Of questionable character: dubious profits. [From Latin dubius.] dubiously du'bi·ous·ly adv. dubiousness du'bi·ous·ness n.