fishy

fishy
adj. (informal)
VERBS
be, look, seem, smell, sound

It all sounds very fishy to me.

ADVERB
very
definitely
a little, slightly, etc.
PHRASES
something fishy

There was definitely something fishy going on.

Fishy is used with these nouns: ↑smell

Collocations dictionary. 2013.

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