Dan'l Schorr's"dubious Congress"

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 11/7/07, sagehen at westelcom.com <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
>
> On ATC tonight, Daniel Schorr, in speaking of the possible investigation of
> claims that brutal questioning methods had
> averted several planned terrorist attacks, said this would be gone into by
> a "dubious Congress."  One is tempted to
> agree with the dubiousness of Congress's motives, given their recent
> behavior, but I *think* Schorr meant skeptical or
> doubtful.

A sense attested by the OED back to 1632. (Note the similar polysemy
of "doubtful".)


--Ben Zimmer

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