How to Use dodgy in a Sentence

dodgy

adjective
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  • The car's got a dodgy engine.
  • They got into a dodgy situation.
  • Except crabs are quick and dodgy, and the wild ones don’t have their claws tied.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But the assets attached to this debt are not as dodgy as those of a decade and a half ago.
    — The Economist, 12 July 2019
  • In that way, users can bypass the dodgy rivals in app stores.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2020
  • All the action is—woof!—in the not-at-all-dodgy Dogecoin.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 5 May 2021
  • And there are some mighty dodgy dealings with some of her images.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2011
  • Many VPNs are also dodgy and may do far more harm than good.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • So for those folks, relying on the good graces of tippers is a dodgy way to make a living.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
  • The biggest use case is still writing dodgy prose for search engines.
    — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • There’s something dodgy about portrait artists, and that’s part of their allure.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Obviously the film has some very dodgy aspects to it that aren’t PC.
    — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
  • You will be left to roll about in a tiny death chair accessorized with a dodgy buckle and flaccid strap.
    — Kimberly Harrington, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Wall Street just posted a record year—for the amount companies have been forced to pay out to settle claims of dodgy dealings.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • And this one's about safeguarding against fraud and dodgy practices in science.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2012
  • Aytu did not concoct this with dodgy quacks at Bob’s Clinic.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 1 May 2020
  • Mike White’s rib injuries make New York a bit of a dodgy play here, but the Lions are red-hot, anyway, and full of confidence.
    — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Unlike Petya, NotPetya was able to spread on its own—no need for people to mess up by clicking on dodgy email links.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Many Americans turn to the latest big idea to lose weight — fad diets, fitness crazes, dodgy herbs and pills, bariatric surgery, just to name a few.
    — Darius Tahir, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2022
  • In a later sketch, Grohl goofed around with Fallon to sing old jingles in dodgy clothes and horrendous wigs.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2021
  • And then there are the more familiar tricks of campaign seasons, from dodgy pamphlets to avoiding the media.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • But the Stamp Realm has a darker side too: a group of dodgy types plot to cross the divide between the fantasy land and reality.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Evan’s dodgy act of atonement builds up his own social capital.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Get our daily newsletter Valve is not the first to be affected by such dodgy trading.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The bad news is that the paper is rife with dodgy, unqualified correlations and claims.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2015
  • Matilda loves to lose herself in the pages of books, while her parents spend their time watching trash TV and coming up with dodgy money-making schemes.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The last thing most new inventors want is to end up with a questionable company with dodgy scruples!
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • She’s recruited by a dodgy British officer (Joseph Fiennes), who also deals arms on the black market, for a number of off-the-books jobs.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 May 2023
  • Partly because the average person these days is perhaps much less likely to click on a dodgy email.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 30 Aug. 2021
  • No, the one with the prime minister discovering his driver’s mighty baritone while caroling in the dodgy end of Wandsworth.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019

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