Sentence examples for which dodgy from inspiring English sources

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And, lastly, loopholes need to be closed, particularly ways in which dodgy employment agencies are now giving the whole sector a bad name.

Mr Frenkel alleged that money laundering is a trivial scam compared with money dirtying, in which dodgy banks illicitly offer access to cash that can be used, for, say, bribing government officials.

The sisters' resentful low-grade enmity and the strange, louring atmosphere of the estuary house, with its network of algae-covered drainage ditches, conspire to create a sense of menace in which dodgy doings or sexual infringement must surely occur.

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It ordered an external study of the UraMin deal in 2010, which suggested dodgy goings-on.

But there are places on this estate which are dodgy and they are the poorer quality housing definitely so there is a bit of a divide.

There seemed something altogether just about the Shrigley style, which united dodgy orthography – misspellings simply being scratched out and wonkily rewritten – with a sense of authority; for, no matter what the confusions and moral turpitudes of his toothy men and malformed women, his scrawled beasts and banjaxed bestiary, behind it all, one felt certain, lay a shrewd maker.

The scene in which a dodgy realtor is dragged to his death behind a boat was worthy in its cold dispassion to almost anything from The Sopranos, and made gloriously more chilling by the backdrop of heaven, rather than Noo Joizey.

Unlike Stella, Blanche mourns the loss of civility and the family home, which, alongside dodgy liaisons, have forced her to the French Quarter.

Some agents even charge the buyers a fee to attend an Open House, which is downright dodgy, but hey – KER-CHING!

There are a fair few linguistic and non-linguistic assumptions bound up in this romance, most of which are decidedly dodgy.

As with all minimal but well conceived interiors (rather than the places which stick one dodgy print of a gerbera on the wall and furnish from flatpacks), it is all about the detail.

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