How to Use dodgy in a Sentence

dodgy

adjective

• The car's got a dodgy engine.
• They got into a dodgy situation.
• Except crabs are quick and dodgy, and the wild ones don’t have their claws tied.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2023
• The three of us ended up in some very dodgy youth hostel.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 30 May 2024
• But the assets attached to this debt are not as dodgy as those of a decade and a half ago.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2019
• In that way, users can bypass the dodgy rivals in app stores.
  — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2020
• All the action is—woof!—in the not-at-all-dodgy Dogecoin.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 5 May 2021
• And there are some mighty dodgy dealings with some of her images.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Oct. 2011
• Many VPNs are also dodgy and may do far more harm than good.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• So for those folks, relying on the good graces of tippers is a dodgy way to make a living.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 18 June 2018
• The biggest use case is still writing dodgy prose for search engines.
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• There’s something dodgy about portrait artists, and that’s part of their allure.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Obviously the film has some very dodgy aspects to it that aren’t PC.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
• You will be left to roll about in a tiny death chair accessorized with a dodgy buckle and flaccid strap.
  — Kimberly Harrington, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2021
• LeBrun said their isolation and dodgy offense put points on the board.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 30 Apr. 2024
• Wall Street just posted a record year—for the amount companies have been forced to pay out to settle claims of dodgy dealings.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2020
• And this one's about safeguarding against fraud and dodgy practices in science.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2012
• Aytu did not concoct this with dodgy quacks at Bob’s Clinic.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 1 May 2020
• Mike White’s rib injuries make New York a bit of a dodgy play here, but the Lions are red-hot, anyway, and full of confidence.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• Unlike Petya, NotPetya was able to spread on its own—no need for people to mess up by clicking on dodgy email links.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Feb. 2018
• Many Americans turn to the latest big idea to lose weight — fad diets, fitness crazes, dodgy herbs and pills, bariatric surgery, just to name a few.
  — Darius Tahir, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2022
• In a later sketch, Grohl goofed around with Fallon to sing old jingles in dodgy clothes and horrendous wigs.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2021
• And then there are the more familiar tricks of campaign seasons, from dodgy pamphlets to avoiding the media.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
• But the Stamp Realm has a darker side too: a group of dodgy types plot to cross the divide between the fantasy land and reality.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
• Evan’s dodgy act of atonement builds up his own social capital.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Get our daily newsletter Valve is not the first to be affected by such dodgy trading.
  — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
• The bad news is that the paper is rife with dodgy, unqualified correlations and claims.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2015
• Matilda loves to lose herself in the pages of books, while her parents spend their time watching trash TV and coming up with dodgy money-making schemes.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2022
• Sharon’s isolation is evident in her chatterbox enthusiasm at the prospect of a new pal, while LuPone’s Robyn is all mystery and dodgy answers.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
• Films that try to capture the qualities of virtual life often wind up unwatchable, an unpleasant hodgepodge of avatars and dodgy graphics.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024