Sentence examples for dodgy thing from inspiring English sources

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"And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it".

As a writer she was inventive and brave, branching out into science fiction in her Canopus In Argos series at a time when it was a dodgy thing for a "mainline" novelist to do.

This is perhaps a dodgy thing to do if your leader, 41-year-old Lutz Bachmann, has a criminal record for drug dealing, as well as breaking and entering.

The important thing about his appearance was, first, that selling the story of Dryden's wife to the press is just the sort of dodgy thing he'd do (and for series one viewers it's quite amusing to imagine that Nige's little leak is at least partly responsible for the whole mess) and, second, to give Dot his alibi by naming Cole, incorrectly, as the caddy.

Surely a man can find an Asian woman attractive without necessarily having a deep-rooted and dodgy "thing" for Asian women.

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Governments get up to dodgy things, no doubt, but this mistakes paranoid gossip for serious investigation.

"When I was aware that very dodgy things were being done by very dodgy people and no one seemed to care".

The off-season weather is just one of the dodgy things about Pattaya – a resort known to many as "Thailand's Blackpool", it is two hours outside Bangkok – but Tong is savouring every moment.

Perhaps the hippies weren't aware of what was going on outside their own circle – or of dodgy things that only came to light later, such as establishment links to the criminal Kray brothers, who helped the MP Tom Driberg to some of his more questionable enjoyments.

The MCB calls their examples of Tories saying dodgy things about Muslims "the tip of the iceberg".

"Hmm, all I know is there was a lot of subletting and dodgy things going on back then.

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