iffy

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The weather looks quite iffy, which isn't so bad for a bike ride on the greenway.

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  • While the field is nowhere in sight and that 2010 deadline looks a bit iffy, at least signs of life are starting to emerge. —  Curbed
  • While the Verizon phone is still a bit iffy, the T-Mobile offering seems to almost certainly be the Motorola Morrision which, as you can see above, is already pretty well acquainted with T-Mo branding. —  We Blog A Lot
  • Ken Carman: "Mike Malloy's future is iffy, although he's still on Internet radio." —  LT Saloon
  • Even C. can be iffy, and I don't think it's a slam dunk that Miami's Hispanic population with turn out from day one. —  WordPress.com News
  • Even though season 4 was kind of iffy (even though they still got off gems like "The Constant" and it introduced Daniel Faraday, who has become one of my favorite characters on the show) it's still one of the best shows on TV and Season 5 has gotten off to a promising start. —  Wrong Planet - Asperger / Autism News
 

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