Sentence examples for was dodgy from inspiring English sources
adjective
Evasive and shifty
- Asked why, a spokesman gave a dodgy answer about legal ramifications.
There were motion sensors and an alarm system, but the electricity supply, Lewis said, was dodgy.
"Speaking as a bad actor myself I thought Murdoch's performance was dodgy.
What NCIS needed was for the Russian police to provide evidence that the Arigon money was dodgy.
"It does seem to me that there are reasonable grounds for assuming that people knew the blog was dodgy a lot earlier and we were left defending something which wasn't true".
This, it said, was hardly exceptional for a boss which, though true, does not deal with the objection that Mr Esser was not actually awarded any share options.Martin Peltzer, a lawyer in Frankfurt, thinks that Mr Esser's award was dodgy.
Sadly, though, there is no mention of one British participant in this sorry story: Tory peer John Wakeham, who in the 1990s pulled down a juicy £80,000 per year serving as non-executive director for Enron and brushed aside warnings that his employer was dodgy.
Fish specials were dodgy.
And the book-keeping is dodgy.
But the Swedish model is dodgy.
The Bible is a narrative blueprint for a lot of western culture - if everything referencing it is dodgy then the nativity is dodgy, a lot of Shakespeare is dodgy, some of The Archers is dodgy, everything is dodgy.
In fact it is the old numbers that are dodgy.
