dodgy

June, now 63, said her home office at the time had a dial-up modem, trading software downloaded from a compact disc and a dodgy internet connection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

For a number of years, people around Britain have spoken of what they perceived to be "dodgy shops" on their High Street.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

"Pride in Place" scheme for people to improve their local areas, powers for councils to limit bookmakers and bring empty shops back to use, and plans to boost trading standards' ability to tackle "dodgy businesses".

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Every year millions of dodgy apps and cheapo internet-connected devices ship with an unadvertised back door called residential proxy software.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

“Better not make it sound like I reckon Crouch is up to anything dodgy, though. Percy loves Crouch.”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" 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

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

In the hands of a lesser judge, his approach might bring dodgier results.

From Economist ● Sep. 7, 2017

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