Crossword clues for dodgy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1861, from dodge + -y (2). Related: Dodginess.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context UK Australian NZ English) evasive and shifty 2 (context UK Australian NZ English) unsound and unreliable 3 dishonest 4 risky 5 deviant 6 uncomfortable and weird
WordNet
adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker [syn: chancy, chanceful, dicey]
marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]
Wikipedia
Dodgy are an English power pop rock trio, that rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s. They are best known for their hits "Staying Out for the Summer", "If You're Thinking of Me", and " Good Enough". The latter was their biggest hit reaching No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart. They released their first album in over a decade, Stand Upright In A Cool Place, on Strikeback Records in February 2012.
Usage examples of "dodgy".
To mask the sound of her voice, Fiamma reached forwards and turned on the hot tap which, being connected to the dodgy StregaSchloss plumbing, obliged with a cacophony of splutters and clanks before it disgorged a gout of peat-stained water,no Im not breaking up, its just my mud bath, she continued.
He also ran casinos, dog tracks, was involved in illicit trades on the stock market, owned diamond mines, smuggled opium and probably had a finger in every dodgy pie imaginable .
At long last Ill be able to sever my connection with this dodgy family and return to a career which doesnt involve laundering money for the criminal underworld.
Seems like a pretty dodgy excuse for dragging me back frae the land of nod.
I was the last to arrive, which is always a dodgy thing to be with a sarky up-himself swine like Nigel.
Your job was to quell the impulse to bang their stupid fat heads together, to ignore the affronted speeches of dodgy self-justification, to get them to stop shouting and to get them off the street.
Dramatis Personae might have a dodgy reputation, but no one had ever accused them of killing a member of the audience.
In the last six months Pop had left him to deal with all paper work, forms, returns, and what Pop called the dodgy stuff.
Obviously this wine lark was a bit dodgy, he thought, and privately decided he must go into it a bit more closely.
He doubted if even Charley, that master of figures, would ever be able to sort out all the dodgy squeezes in that bill.
I think he got a dodgy warrant and he had a pop at me hoping to find something.
He had received a very formal letter with a slightly grovelling tone from the chief constable, who wished to assure him that any information given in confidence would remain confidential There was no mention of the matter of the dodgy search warrant and nothing about compensation for the smashed Christmas present.
Farne is that close to being suspended for pulling another dodgy stroke.
And making him pay for property damaged in an illegal search based on a dodgy warrant?
Mario any reason to think I found anything dodgy about the set-up here.