Sentence examples for were dodgy from inspiring English sources

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were dodgy

adjective

Evasive and shifty

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

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Fish specials were dodgy.

Selling credit protection is similar to writing certain kinds of common options on shares.The root cause of the crisis, Mr Pickel argues, is bad mortgage lending, not derivatives: swaps on subprime mortgages grew unstable because the loans themselves were dodgy.

He admitted that the university's operations were dodgy.

But unlike the general election, these polls were dodgy.

They didn't recognize us — they just thought we were dodgy guests".

The first 30 to 40 were dodgy, but I did them anyway.

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And the book-keeping is dodgy.

But the Swedish model is dodgy.

In fact it is the old numbers that are dodgy.

Mr Eichengreen show that for reserve currencies these arguments are dodgy.

There were motion sensors and an alarm system, but the electricity supply, Lewis said, was dodgy.

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