Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Artfully; cunningly.
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- adverb In a
dodgy manner
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Examples
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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
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Further information is available (in French) on Wikipedia, and slightly dodgily translated to English here.
News from Finland sfawardswatch 2009
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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[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
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The openings are very dodgily placed, and a stranger would not dream that they went many inches in.
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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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