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: requiring skill or care in handling or coping with
Synonyms of dodgy
Examples of dodgy in a Sentence
The car's got a dodgy engine.
They got into a dodgy situation.
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To be sure, there is some research to indicate that these unauthorized streams will bombard you with pop-up ads for dodgy gambling sites and crypto scams.
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Olivia Solon, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
Strategy was formerly known as MicroStrategy — going public in June 1998 at $10 a share — promptly sprinting up 31-fold to around $320 before sinking fast in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting and the revelation of dodgy revenue accounting at the analytics software company.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Plus, is dodgy data undermining medical research?
—TheWeek, 16 Jan. 2026
Greenstein and Goldberg tried — and failed — to dissuade their boss from giving Will Smith and his company Westbrook an overall deal with the studio, arguing that the Oscar-slap controversy and a dodgy box office track record would result in more headaches than hits.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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Olivia Solon, Bloomberg, 27 Jan. 2026
Strategy was formerly known as MicroStrategy — going public in June 1998 at $10 a share — promptly sprinting up 31-fold to around $320 before sinking fast in the wake of the dot-com bubble bursting and the revelation of dodgy revenue accounting at the analytics software company.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Plus, is dodgy data undermining medical research?
—TheWeek, 16 Jan. 2026
Greenstein and Goldberg tried — and failed — to dissuade their boss from giving Will Smith and his company Westbrook an overall deal with the studio, arguing that the Oscar-slap controversy and a dodgy box office track record would result in more headaches than hits.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
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“Dodgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dodgy. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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