dodgy

It’s a stunning collapse for a onetime ad man with a dodgy reputation who rose to become the go-to digital campaign guru for Latin America’s ascendant right wing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

OK, but surely that’s all for dodgy people who worked for Collins?

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

This created an ideal environment for touts—one of whom bragged online about making a “good few quid” selling dodgy glasses, unconcerned about repercussions because buyers would “never see me again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He wrote: "There's only room for one English person doing dodgy Scottish accents in the political arena. This is an attack on my business model."

From BBC ● Jun. 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 Robert Louis Stevenson

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