Synonyms and Antonyms of dodgy
1
requiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handling
- getting the trade unions to go along with the agreement will be a rather dodgy piece of work
catchy, delicate, difficult, hairy, knotty, nasty, prickly, problematic (also problematical), sensitive, spiny, sticky, thorny, ticklish, touchy, tough, tricksy, tricky
abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, hard, intricate, involved, recondite, serious
problem, scabrous, stubborn, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, vexing, worrisome
burdensome, demanding, discommoding, exacting, exhausting, importunate, inconvenient, onerous, oppressive, painful, stressful
2
clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
- needed a dodgy barrister to get him acquited of the charge
artful, beguiling, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
astute, facile, glib, sharp
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous
backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced
circuitous, circular, roundabout
clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover
calculating, plotting
obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealed
aboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnished
childlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly
unforced, unstudied
trustful, trusting
3
giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challenged
- the authenticity of the "lost" Shakespearean sonnet was more than a little dodgy
debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, problematic (also problematical), queer, questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious
alleged, so-called, supposed
moot
ambiguous, open, unclear
uncertain, undecided, undetermined
far-fetched, flimsy, improbable, unlikely, weak
certain, hands-down, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable, questionless, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unproblematic, unquestionable
