Meanings of dubious practice in English

According to a program spokesman, X Factor will cease this dubious practice once it switches over to live shows.

Kay Hammond, Surrey County Council's cabinet member for Community Safety, said: This case shone a spotlight on the dubious practice of doorstep selling.

Shimming The dubious practice of a broker stealing a few cents from a client while conducting a trade, ultimately building up a significant amount.

If true, it was estimated power companies made upwards of $40m from this highly dubious practice, at the expense of South Australia power consumers.

There have been dubious practices since time immemorial with beer on tap.

Investigations sparked by a phone-hacking scandal continue to expose dubious practices by present and past employees.

Beneath it churns an ocean of dubious practices that spans the physical, biological and social sciences.

It was the home of dubious practices at the polls, and the invariable hunting-ground for domestic servants.

At the same time, the pressure to get exclusive stories was so intense that dubious practices were barely questioned.

But the period also coincides with some of the more dubious practices in the bank which have recently come to light.

Competitive, actually adversarial, considerations prevail, such as those manifest in the morally dubious practices accepted by the legal and political systems.

The saga of white-collar crime at blood-testing start-up, Theranos, only came to light when whistleblowers called time on the company's dubious practices.

Or maybe the article referenced dubious practices that Levin's clinic was engaged in, too, and Levin didn't want to arouse Lake's suspicions.

Academic staff say government targets and tight finances are resulting in dumbing down and dubious practices, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.