Sentence examples for dodgy characters from inspiring English sources

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Appearance: Carlos the Jackal-ish international dodgy characters.

It is bad enough when dodgy characters win votes, but even worse when they count them.

The affair involves a cast of prodigiously dodgy characters in assorted countries.

And when the information comes from dodgy characters (perhaps with payment involved) compliance officers and regulators get twitchy.

But Burr also spent a lot of time in the wilderness with dodgy characters, and there is at least circumstantial evidence that his intentions were more malign.

Tony walks into a diner, puts Journey's Don't Stop Believin' on the jukebox, clocks a few potentially dodgy characters.

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The raid, he said, was carried out by the state police, and "it involved some dodgy character who was alleging that we had stolen five hundred thousand dollars from Citibank".

The vicar who ministered to this disreputable parish of actors, spies, cut-purses, prostitutes and poets - and to its larger proportion of unsung law-abiders - was himself a rather dodgy character, one Meredith Hanmer, who had spied on English Catholics in France in the early 1580s.

Dodgy quality.

On "Prime Suspect" and other imports from Britain, he unfailingly plays the dodgiest of characters, someone definitely not to be trusted, especially when he is cast, as he is here, as an investigating officer.

The walls of the Peaky Blinders production office are plastered with pinned-up pictures - sketches of set designs, film stills and real mugshots of dodgy-looking characters from the 1920s.

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