dodgy

It’s a stunning collapse for a onetime ad man with a dodgy reputation who rose to become the go-to digital campaign guru for Latin America’s ascendant right wing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Bank runs ensued as depositors feared that dodgy trusts would go bust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

OK, but surely that’s all for dodgy people who worked for Collins?

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

Burnham celebrated his new job with some "dodgy dad dancing" to Manchester band New Order, the paper reports.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

She meant that the ladder was dodgy and the floorboards up there were weak.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Banks are also beautifying their books through “significant risk transfers,” or SRTs, that shift potentially dodgier assets off balance sheet.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

It’s toned down the dodgier side of its humor, but it still has its sporadic 21st century pop culture references.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2019

Kayla will later deal with scarier and dodgier situations than these run-of-the-mill indignities, even if Eighth Grade mercifully never goes as dark as first-time writer-director Bo Burnham sometimes seem to hint it will.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2018

It is a hokey Highlands tale, crammed with dodgy kilts and still dodgier lyrics—“Don’t ye ken, There’s a fair, Down on MacConnachy Square?”—but the premise is oddly moving.

From Economist ● May 9, 2013

There was no smarter trader, and none dodgier, in the islands.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Through the dodgiest situations, brother and sister do not hesitate to argue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

So, she walks, in darkness and icy rain, through the dodgiest parts of the city.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2016

Money arrives to Manafort circuitously, sometimes through the dodgiest of routes.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016

Even the studio and one-bedroom apartments in “Block B”, long considered the dodgiest of the six, are now thought to be bijou.

From Economist ● Feb. 25, 2016

The reason to describe the plot in only the hedgiest and dodgiest of terms isn’t so much to avoid spoilers as to avoid giving away the only thing the movie’s got.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 2015