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However, Vaughan stated he believed Root had been dealt a "dodgy hand" during his time as Test captain.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

"There's times that I might sing a wrong note or it might be a bit dodgy here and there and I just know for a fact that it's just a process, that it is alright."

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

Under Greenspan’s watch, the Fed didn’t blow the whistle on riskier lending practices in which Wall Street used financial alchemy to turn dodgy mortgages into highly rated securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

For low-budget AI microdramas, Chinese regulations say platforms must be the primary checkpoint for potentially dodgy content.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

John Paulson was oddly interested in betting against dodgy loans, and oddly persuasive in talking others into doing it with him.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Banks are also beautifying their books through “significant risk transfers,” or SRTs, that shift potentially dodgier assets off balance sheet.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

It’s toned down the dodgier side of its humor, but it still has its sporadic 21st century pop culture references.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2019

Kayla will later deal with scarier and dodgier situations than these run-of-the-mill indignities, even if Eighth Grade mercifully never goes as dark as first-time writer-director Bo Burnham sometimes seem to hint it will.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2018

His assault is both on the offshore tax havens and on the often dodgier, if less well-known, practices in onshore jurisdictions such as Delaware—or London.

From Economist ● Jun. 13, 2013

There was no smarter trader, and none dodgier, in the islands. 

From Island Nights' Entertainments by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Through the dodgiest situations, brother and sister do not hesitate to argue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

So, she walks, in darkness and icy rain, through the dodgiest parts of the city.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2016

Money arrives to Manafort circuitously, sometimes through the dodgiest of routes.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016

Even the studio and one-bedroom apartments in “Block B”, long considered the dodgiest of the six, are now thought to be bijou.

From Economist ● Feb. 25, 2016

The reason to describe the plot in only the hedgiest and dodgiest of terms isn’t so much to avoid spoilers as to avoid giving away the only thing the movie’s got.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015