Sentence examples for dodgy phrase from inspiring English sources

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Our finest commentators and experts – always a dodgy phrase – joined in the same chorus line.

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Non-experts often resort to ambiguous or dodgy phrasing to describe complicated subjects, while experts are able to dive into the gritty details.

Stewart, a bore with a dodgy turn of phrase ("… let's call them black individuals… "), tried to turn the tables on Nicky, asking him if he would remain presenting if he was accused of racist comments against a colleague.

On Tuesday morning Butler told the ABC Labor wanted genuine abatement, and was not interested in "dodgy accounting tricks" – a phrase he has used publicly several times in relation to Kyoto credits.

Every autobiography wants to set the record straight – if that is the right phrase here, given the dodgy dealings littering every page.

Now, depending on your cultural reference points, the phrase "lesbian queen" will bring to mind a dodgy calypso song you once heard on holiday, a giant yacht ploughing its way majestically through the Indian ocean, or Clare Balding.

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Dodgy debates!

Dodgy infrastructure".

"Severely" is dodgy.

It is dodgy economics.

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