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dodgy

[doj-ee] / ˈdɒdʒ i /


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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

Consumer group Which? said it has "repeatedly exposed businesses, including trusted household brands, ripping off customers with dodgy deals that aren't what they seem".

From BBC Aug. 9, 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

“Skulkin’ around Knockturn Alley, I dunno — dodgy place, Harry — don’ want no one ter see yeh down there —” “I realized that,” said Harry, ducking as Hagrid made to brush him off again.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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

Things get a bit dodgier if you’re in a loud environment, but all headphones struggle in that scenario.

From The Verge May 12, 2022

Among the British territories: Gibraltar is dodgier than Guernsey, but cleaner than Anguilla.

From The Guardian Jul. 12, 2018

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

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




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