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Meanings of fishily in English

In a questionably unusual manner.

Usage of fishily in English
1
But-desinit in piscem-itends fishily; and we find, after saturnine fashion, in cauda venenum.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
2
For the majority, the entire story was fishily preposterous.
Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
3
At this point the thought-waves abruptly ceased, and the pale eyes of the dreamer-orcan I say dead man?-commencedto glaze fishily.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
4
Hidden from sunlight all these years, the skin around her bad eye was fishily paler, and Henry thought the eyelashes were a little more sparse.
The irresistible henry house
Fishily through the time