The phrase "are often dodgy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is unreliable, suspicious, or of questionable quality.
Example: "The reviews for that restaurant are often dodgy, so I wouldn't trust them completely."
Alternatives: "are frequently questionable" or "are often unreliable."
It was always a promising site with an attractive, intuitive layout, but it was hamstrung by the fact that those playable streams – pulled from elsewhere on the web – were often dodgy remixes or bad covers.
Porn sites and those offering dodgy software are often hosts for nasty stuff that sneaks on to your computer.
Dodgy works are often temptingly priced, and instead of alarm bells ringing, people think they have got lucky and decide to pounce before someone else does.
Lenders adamantly oppose a new agency, in part because their dodgiest offerings -- like subprime mortgages of yesteryear or short-term "payday loans" -- are often their most profitable.
Although Blair's head of press, Alastair Campbell, is often been identified with the "dodgy dossier" making the case for war, Chilcot places the burden of responsibility on Blair, who authored the foreword to the dossier, but Scarlet too shares the blame for failing to ensure that the assessments of the intelligence community were properly reflected.
Once on Australian soil, the convicts were put to work and lorded over by the English Redcoats, who were often drunk, exceptionally cruel and downright dodgy.
"He's much dodgier," McEwan said.
Financial management was often lax (numerous clubs went bankrupt, including Napoli, Bologna and Fiorentina) and dodgy transfers were the order of the day.
It's often easier in Beirut to hotspot to your 3G rather than rely on dodgy WiFi.
Poor sterilisation facilities and dubious medical practices, such as dodgy blood transfusions, were largely to blame.Those that did not die were often ostracised.
