Sentence examples for has been dodgy from inspiring English sources

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To be honest, I've never signed my son up for soccer lessons, and my son's success with swimming lessons has been dodgy at best (which is probably attributable to the lack of prenatal vitamins).

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Yes, there have been dodgy mullets and frighteningly short shorts, but that's not what I see.

There might have been dodgy dealing, perhaps even criminal behaviour, on the part of a few of those involved but not enough to justify rerunning the bids.That, at least, is according to FIFA, world football's governing body.

But the pacing does seem to have been dodgy since the outstanding episode nine – and with the exception of the spectacular Maryann kiss-off, which was over before we were halfway through, this just seemed sloppy, rather than elegiac.

"From the start, this toll road has been a dodgy deal done behind closed doors".

The N.S.A.'s use of cell-phone location data, in this and other programs, is something about which the government has been alarmingly dodgy in its reassurances).

"We will see if there has been any dodgy dealing!" he said, to mock Tory outrage at the very suggestion that any chancellor could possibly massage the figures, while Osborne spread out his arms in a Del Boy "who, me?" gesture.

Data published by the auction houses Beijing Poly and China Guardian that put China's market in second place to the US in 2011 has been shown to be dodgy, but the country's new power in the art world is cited regularly by pundits and art investors as the reason why the global market cannot now collapse.

Their revolution has been one of dodgy bond issues, government contracts and currency manipulation, yielding yachts, Rolexes and Hummers.

(Canada has been a bit dodgy in recent decades, ever since the Pierre Trudeau era and the Quebecois ascendancy).

"I've never seen loans priced this cheaply ever," says Lewitt, who has been trafficking in dodgy debt since 1987, when he was an investment banker at the junk shrine of that age, Drexel Burnham Lambert.

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