Sentence examples for the dodgy from inspiring English sources

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the dodgy

adjective

Evasive and shifty

  • Asked why, a spokesman gave a dodgy answer about legal ramifications.

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The dodgy "modelling" company.

He's the one with the dodgy (est) barnet.

The dodgy dossier will live on in memory.

Neither does the dodgy geezer caricature stack up.

Where's the social housing, the dodgy pub, the library?

Even expert meat-quality assessors use the dodgy adjectives.

"It's covered in fingerprints," she sighed at the dodgy motor.

Especially with the dodgy caretaker and some secret gardens.

Efforts to rein in the dodgy lending practices rattled stock markets worldwide in late June.

The latest target is American housing, the source of the dodgy loans that brought down Lehman.

The West should use the dodgy election as a pretext for political change.

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