Definition of dodgy
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chiefly British
: requiring skill or care in handling or coping with
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Examples of dodgy in a Sentence
The car's got a dodgy engine.
They got into a dodgy situation.
Recent Examples of dodgy from the Web
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Peter Dinklage as Eitri the Dwarf King Game of Thrones star Dinklage and his occasionally dodgy Tyrion Lannister accent crop up midway through the movie in order to create a new weapon for Thor (Chris Hemsworth).
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After a bout of financial excess, borrowers who lost out are leery of repeating their mistakes, while regulators clamp down on the dodgy practices that led to the last crisis.
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Unlike Petya, NotPetya was able to spread on its own—no need for people to mess up by clicking on dodgy email links.
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But the pre-trial period surfaced more evidence of the dodgy business practices that dogged Uber's final months under former CEO Travis Kalanick, who was pushed out in June.
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With a less compelling lead performance, the movie’s dodgy limitations and flashy, facile editing and cross-cutting might have proved insufferable.
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When the civil-rights ombudsman, Adam Bodnar, challenged PiS’s reforms of the tribunal, including the dodgy investiture of three judges, his complaint was rejected by a panel that included two of the judges in question.
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So many episodes and arrangements in Clinton’s life seemed dodgy, and Clintonian dirt-digging experienced a boom, at a societal cost.
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Marsh and Thomas Hart Benton show us burlesque shows, and Philadelphia artist George Biddle depicts a scene in a speakeasy in which some prosperous but dodgy types are chatting up an androgynous figure who looks a little bit like Harpo Marx.
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First Known Use of dodgy
1861
DODGY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of dodgy for English Language Learners
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: false or dishonest
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: causing a lack of trust or confidence
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: in bad condition
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