Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Artfully; cunningly.

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  • adverb In a dodgy manner

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Examples

  • Further information is available (in French) on Wikipedia, and slightly dodgily translated to English here.

    Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Prix Julia Verlanger 2009

  • Further information is available (in French) on Wikipedia, and slightly dodgily translated to English here.

    News from Finland sfawardswatch 2009

  • Paul looked over John, then back at Larry, then he gulped and said, all dodgily, “Er, wouldja like to hear something else, Mr. Parnes?”

    PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

  • His article starts off a tad dodgily - “Sir Menzies took to the airwaves last week to deny that there are MPs who want [an early end] to his leadership.”

    Archive 2007-01-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • Other than my to work and back driving which I could substitute a bicycle for if I had a halfway decent sense of balance, most of my driving is on the 69/75 corridor, and the though of being in one of those cat-food cans, surrounded by 18 wheelers and dodgily-maintained buses, scares the heck out of me.

    dustbury.com » Smarting off 2008

  • I only stop for a tricky junction or if somebody is driving dodgily behind me or something and I need to fix all my attention on them.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • The Ewerer strains water into his basins, on the upper one of which is a towel folded dodgily.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • [695] The Ewerer strains water into his basins, on the upper one of which is a towel folded dodgily.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • The openings are very dodgily placed, and a stranger would not dream that they went many inches in.

    The Treasure of the Incas 1867

  • That brief, clearly dodgily sourced item has spread like online wildfire in a very dry Internet forest.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Jen Chaney 2011

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