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chiefly British
: requiring skill or care in handling or coping with
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The car's got a dodgy engine.
They got into a dodgy situation.
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Just as any student can spin up a dodgy excuse for a bad report card, Florida Department of Education cheerleaders are brimming with explanations for recent mediocre SAT test scores: Probably bad math.
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Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
Death Becomes Her fires on all cylinders, like a fine automobile that runs on ecologically dodgy fuel, as the first act speeds through Madeline’s betrayal and Helen’s first swing at revenge.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Trump is amassing what may be the most inexperienced Cabinet in decades, one with more skeletons afoot than a cemetery and dodgy odds of getting through en masse.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Browsers like Google Chrome and Apple's Safari come with a whole host of security protections to identify dodgy websites, protect you from nasty downloads, and block bad code from running in your browser.
—David Nield, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2024
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Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Dec. 2024
Death Becomes Her fires on all cylinders, like a fine automobile that runs on ecologically dodgy fuel, as the first act speeds through Madeline’s betrayal and Helen’s first swing at revenge.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Trump is amassing what may be the most inexperienced Cabinet in decades, one with more skeletons afoot than a cemetery and dodgy odds of getting through en masse.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Browsers like Google Chrome and Apple's Safari come with a whole host of security protections to identify dodgy websites, protect you from nasty downloads, and block bad code from running in your browser.
—David Nield, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Dodgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dodgy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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