Examples of “fishy” in a Sentence

adj Tasting, smelling, or resembling fish.

• The sauce had a slightly fishy smell.
• The canned tuna tasted too fishy for my sister's liking.
• A fishy odor drifted from the dock where the boats had unloaded.

adj Suspicious; seeming dishonest or not quite right.

• Something about his story sounded fishy.
• It seemed fishy that the shop would give away free phones.
• The teacher thought the identical answers on both papers looked fishy.