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    Use "dodgy" in a sentence

    dodgy example sentences

    dodgy


    1. He was taking over and I think everyone realised I was in a dodgy situation, and now Felix looked concerned


    2. north eastern caverns have always been a bit dodgy


    3. “I’m not one of the new boys impressed by your shit I have seen more bullets flying than you have seen dodgy deals and I will tell you what on Gallipoli we would have shot you out of hand and made the world a better place


    4. Ah…but wait, you say – if there was no original will, how could she have commandeered the estate and gone wild? That is a good question, but did I mention how cunning she was? The best of all is, the signature on this “copy” of the will is so dodgy and wobbly, it looked like a child had forged it


    5. Swearing, and using the names of God as oaths is out! So are dodgy stories!


    6. “The dirty sod, I always knew there was something dodgy about


    7. “I knew something was dodgy about that house


    8. lake, but Duat geography is a bit dodgy


    9. Things have been a bit dodgy


    10. ‗A Bank has asked me to check on some dodgy credit card transactions, so I‘ll have to go in to town this morning, but when that‘s settled I‘ll get working on the real estate

    11. Try and flog the head waiter some dodgy fags


    12. He was a dodgy, Indian version of the 1980’s British comic character, 'Del Boy'


    13. Stan was interested in the world of the treetops, seeing it as one big opportunity for a scam, whilst Ambrosius was enthralled by Stan's tales of his money-making antics and other dodgy dealings


    14. “Can’t see anything dodgy there, Phil, there’s nothing wrong with it, by which I mean there is everything wrong with it


    15. dodgy! He is not to be trusted!”


    16. Cherrie would put it, dodgy


    17. The pollution in Istanbul, along with some anal invader* of a bastard bug we had picked up there, had left us both with throat and chest infections and dodgy stomachs


    18. *Eating the dodgy sandwich - not crossing the Euphrates


    19. “Good job you’re nineteen,” he quipped, “or this would look really dodgy


    20. “It all sounds a bit dodgy to me,” said Will

    21. Your dead friend here,” he nodded towards Makienko, “has given him a dodgy shoulder, but he’ll live


    22. Sounds bloody dodgy to me, I must say, although I’m quite sure it can be done, given that the political will is there


    23. Yet, after the dodgy sect had been wound up, her twice a year contact with Rick Schwagger might


    24. I know this sounds dodgy, but I’m not a witch and I’m still a witch-hunter, still the same guy


    25. He was a dodgy geezer but he‘d always paid cash


    26. my fair share of that), or joining a dodgy cult that


    27. their dodgy ways of thinking, that easily


    28. As Danny walked off the stage, he wondered whether signing up to serve one’s country included defending a dodgy politician from a 5 ½ foot, nine-stone resurrected rock star


    29. George had characterised it “blatant fraud”, overlooking the many dodgy lunch receipts he had submitted over the last year


    30. “A dodgy rustling that gave me the creeps

    31. battery had died again – I’d left it on all night and forgot to charge it, and the battery was dodgy anyway


    32. The Facebook flack continued for all of last week with my brother then changing his profile pic to a dodgy one of Hugh Hefner wearing a smoking jacket


    33. Dodgy guy looked at me with contempt and refused to answer


    34. 4 other similarly badly dressed colleagues were standing a few feet away observing the procedure that dodgy guy was demonstrating


    35. dodgy guy tore off his infringement notice ($180) and handed it to my girlfriend with a look of smug satisfaction


    36. milkman always struck me as a dodgy character, a little too fond of


    37. A mega-rich corporation with a hand in dodgy deals in the art world? That’s got Nazi written all over it


    38. ’ He stepped out with Doc Adam as Mac arranged some dodgy meat and chips


    39. I knew he was dodgy


    40. Besides, Jimmy wouldn’t get involved in anything dodgy

    41. His strength was coming back, and his dodgy leg gave him no pain


    42. The defendant was Top Market Solutions, a dodgy outfit out of Norfolk, Virginia, with offices in several southern states


    43. It’s going to be dodgy


    44. “Everything is always dodgy,” Lance said


    45. Chuck out any explorer that has management from previous failures; discard any company that leaves you scratching your head about what they are going on about and avoid companies involved with any litigation or any dodgy sounding complicated deals


    46. This will show whether there are any peculiarities, like one product supporting the sagging rest or one geographical area turning distinctly dodgy


    47. It could be dodgy for the smaller investor, however, since there will be less assurance that the professionals have crawled over the business to check its figures, managers and promises, and it is difficult to tell from the puff appearing on the screen whether a company even exists as described, much less whether its managers are competent and honest


    48. The confirmation from Lesko came rocketing back, and the meeting was set for eleven that night; a transfer of cash for coke on a dodgy street in the Lower Haight


    49. He and Thomas played cards, and drew in a few more players as the hours clicked by; even one of the Library’s silver bands sat in, and though his English was dodgy and spiced with Chinese accents, he was a right madman for a bet, and Jess lost half his cash before he bowed out and slept


    50. Everyone likes the idea of owning land, so the dodgy dealers invited investors to put money into what appeared to be big, exciting new building projects, complete with plans and maps and artists’ impressions







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    Synonyms for "dodgy"

    crafty cunning dodgy foxy guileful knavish slick sly tricksy tricky wily chanceful chancy dicey

    "dodgy" definitions

    of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk


    marked by skill in deception