dodgy

This created an ideal environment for touts—one of whom bragged online about making a “good few quid” selling dodgy glasses, unconcerned about repercussions because buyers would “never see me again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

He wrote: "There's only room for one English person doing dodgy Scottish accents in the political arena. This is an attack on my business model."

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Under Greenspan’s watch, the Fed didn’t blow the whistle on riskier lending practices in which Wall Street used financial alchemy to turn dodgy mortgages into highly rated securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

And when the lenders have a lot of leverage, rely on dodgy credit ratings or are influenced to lend by regulatory demands, prepare for serious problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

She kept looking behind her, her eyes wide and dodgy.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

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

Things get a bit dodgier if you’re in a loud environment, but all headphones struggle in that scenario.

From The Verge ● May 12, 2022

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

In the hands of a lesser judge, his approach might bring dodgier results.

From Economist ● Sep. 7, 2017

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