How To Use Dodgy In A Sentence
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If the seller is dodgy, then likely as not, so is the car.
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He also evened out dodgy quality by blending wines grown in differing microclimates within Champagne and across both hot and cold vintages.
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All that's missing is their floppy hair and dodgy waistcoats.
The Sun
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All accompanied by some dodgy spelling and hyperbolic punctuation.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fraud is also rife in these dodgy dealings.
The Sun
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A nifty footballer and a dab hand at catch and chase, Matthew admitted he thought he was going to lose her after she had an operation for a dodgy heart.
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The British media may be attacked for the weakness of its investigative reporting and the salaciousness and dodgy practices of the tabloids, but I would rather err on the side of a profession that is hard to control than one that is pliant.
Privacy decisions can't just be left to judges and politicians
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Or stand by to rescue you from fire and terror and stroke and dodgy drains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Could be a dodgy ticker.
The Sun
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It can be drummed into county cricket a little more about just how important it is to report if something is dodgy.
Times, Sunday Times
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But wasn't it all rather dodgy?
Times, Sunday Times
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They aren't roller skates, they're in-line skates, and I feel decidedly dodgy on them.
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Where late-night casinos may still be considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells, the online community can enjoy a game without the dodgy characters or stench of ashtrays.
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It is here that she meets her second husband or partner, a dodgy, unreliable character.
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It will undoubtedly stun and amaze you to know that my fashion sense has always been a bit dodgy.
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He's not the worst candidate in the field but he has a bit of dodgy salesman about him.
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He just sort of thought there was something a bit dodgy going on.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a dodgy existence, sharing more with high-risk adventure sports than gentlemanly pursuits.
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Maybe he's worried about getting a dodgy taxi driver.
Times, Sunday Times
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Going on holiday - flight delays, too many seats on the plane, dodgy food and warm beer, in a word, stress.
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At first, it was dodgy boxing promotions in his native Gold Coast, Queensland.
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Instead he and his friends headed to Holland, running riot with counterfeit currency and dodgy plastic supplied by an older villain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is part of a group of investors that sent a letter demanding Bank of America buy back some $47 billion in dodgy mortgages.
Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis
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You should never apologise for your taste in music, literature, etc - no matter how dodgy!
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They don't push drugs or dodgy knockoffs, but punnets of strawberries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was just the wiring to the dodgy phones in the logitech headphones that went wrong.
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Coming back into form after dodgy spell.
The Sun
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Maybe ‘le garcon’ could get round to helping to “fix the dodgy starter sparkly, change the torch batteries and to seeing to whatever neeeds seeing to stop the fuses tripping in the fusebox” instead of boring you silly with his never ending monologues about his interminable poker games?
Words of wisdom
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And in the duets, Rutter and Gavin were glorious; faced with such wonderful vocalism we could not help but be carried away and forget the work's rather dodgy dramaturgy.
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Fraud is also rife in these dodgy dealings.
The Sun
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This bloke's got history when it comes to dodgy saves and even dodgier barnets.
The Sun
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Check out her vocal range - and dodgy barnet - on my website.
The Sun
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The last thing Leeds need right now is podgy referees overruling linesmen and giving seriously dodgy goals against them.
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It wasn't quite as rarefied as Royal Ascot, and the weather was dodgy to say the least, but it was still fun to go racing at Ayr.
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But the tiny time gap may have been down to a dodgy connection in a fibre optic cable.
The Sun
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Yet it was on this feeble and dodgy dossier that an entire edifice of advice was built.
Times, Sunday Times
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The big commercial landlords keep suggesting that they have sold on the shops that were let to dodgy retail chains.
Times, Sunday Times
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These include efforts to: present the pronouncements of the President to be inconsistent, and at odds with established ANC policy; cover matters relating to the President's pending court case in a manner that undermines the principle of presumption of innocence; suggest conflict between the President, Deputy President and Treasurer General; make various other claims about Officials being "gagged", former NEC members being targeted for "dodgy deals", and the inaccurate reporting of
ANC Today
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Norton Disk Doctor can perform miracles on a dodgy hard disk.
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We should of course always make sure that dodgy toys are binned, car seats are safe and secure, matches are well out of reach and knives are not used for juggling.
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Yes, there is the odd dodgy track and occasional dreadful lyric, but on the whole this album is far better than many would of dreamed possible.
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As it was the late 80's, Goa was still very uncommercialised and the haunt of hippies and dodgy drug dealers, who we met on several occasions plying their trade.
Army Rumour Service
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And sometimes their recollections are not just dodgy but downright misleading.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even before you take into account the party as whole depending on dodgy money, smearing anyonewho stand sin its way, and generally cosying up to the super-rich.
A fate worse than Hain?
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Adam told me he was going to walk up to the shop to get some milk and bread, and that he'd say g'day to Dodgy John on his way past.
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I don't want to get involved in anything dodgy.
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The expenses scandal blew up over dodgy claims ranging from home improvements to duck houses.
The Sun
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And your family doctor is usually so busy anyway it may take more than a day to get an appointment - by which time your headache, upset stomach or dodgy back may be already on the mend.
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He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
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With this country notorious for dodgy weather, they must have worried the flame would die.
The Sun
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But most children swallow this dodgy concept hook, line and sinker.
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Menswear influences were actress Joan Collins is said to have posed for a photoshoot, which is based on her femme fatale Alexis Carrington character from soap opera IBIZA Bloodshot eyes, hung-over head, and dodgy digestion - all symptoms you'd expect to 'pick up', rather than eliminate, on a week in Ibiza.
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I don't want to get involved in anything dodgy.
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Dodgy books, cringe-making photos of hairstyles you would rather forget about, a mix of furniture and the odd beautiful piece picked up over years of travel, can all cohabit.
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Had dodgy hairstyle but has just shaved it off.
The Sun
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Isn't it just a teeny-weeny bit dodgy to have an advert of a grown man surrounded by children?
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If the weather's looking dodgy we take our chances and go for it as we'd all rather film it outdoors.
Times, Sunday Times
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But there is a time delay, like talking on a dodgy video link.
Times, Sunday Times
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Norton Disk Doctor can perform miracles on a dodgy hard disk.
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As a long term choral singer I've been subjected to many whims of Latin pronunciation, including one director who insisted at all times on "authentic" pronunciation but had a very dodgy grasp of what that might have entailed.
Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING THE PASSION.
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In case you are wondering; in this context I am not referring to young Girl Guides, or delicious chocolate comestibles but to Gordon Brown's skilful habit of answering a question by using a dodgy statistic to not quite answer the question he was asked but one more to his liking.
The Today programme and "Brownies"
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When that gave out they had to take a tow at 60 miles an hour from the Ford Corsair with very dodgy brakes - ‘terrifying’.
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Manchester, by comparison, is a gleaming metropolis of cosmopolitan glamour and dodgy haircuts.
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Stories of dodgy matches spread like wildfire on a regular basis.
The Sun
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They drink too much, stay up too late, hang around dodgy parts of town and consort with older men.
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One official explained how investigators identify dodgy results by strange betting patterns.
The Sun
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I can't come in to work today - I've got a bit of a dodgy stomach.
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Norton Disk Doctor can perform miracles on a dodgy hard disk.
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I wasn't looking at a pair of small-time operators chiselling a few grand on a dodgy land deal.
KICK BACK
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Will his dodgy dealings be exposed?
The Sun
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With this country notorious for dodgy weather, they must have worried the flame would die.
The Sun
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I have been off sick with decidedly dodgy tummy and jelly-like legs, and have lain around the house being languid, playing a small selection of CDs repeatedly and desultorily surfing the internet.
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He's got a dodgy immune system at the best of times.
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MMGW is a scam and theres no evidence apart from dodgy computer predictions and propaganda pumped out by your employer why dont you report that the antartic ice cap reach is at a record? maybe as it does not suit your agenda
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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If we're all such big fans and so disparaging of certain sequels and writers and directors "blahblah" - Why not grow a backbone, ***** convention and make an alternative "Aliens/A3/A4" The material we have to work with here is GOLD, so someone minted a dodgy coin ... mint another one!
Sigourney Weaver And Ridley Scott To Team Up For Alien-Less ‘Alien’ Sequel? » MTV Movies Blog
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They see me sweating down to do low weights and riding dodgy novices.
The Sun
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He looked older and was wearing a dodgy anorak.
The Sun
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They see me sweating down to do low weights and riding dodgy novices.
The Sun
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After bringing the railways to the city, he fell from grace over dodgy financial dealings.
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There are so many joys to it, from dodgy food at dodgy roadhouses to the struggle of finding a decent radio station in rural Australia.
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His driving was dodgy, his irons iffy, and his body still troubled by a few aches and pains, not the least of which is a back problem that requires weekly chiropractice.
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They got involved with a dodgy businessman and lost all their savings.
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Expect your first time to feel akin to being strapped to a dodgy roller skate in the middle of a quarry.
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The entrance was a spectacular doline 150m across and 100m deep where a devious route down lunged from tree to tree with only the occasional bamboo ladder or dodgy hand line for assistance.
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In her book she still defends the same dodgy, unhistorical methodology.
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Among the dodgy remedies are cowpats to draw boils, liquid paraffin to ease constipation and vinegar for almost everything.
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And choc lovers are 12 per cent less prone to dodgy hearts generally and nine per cent less likely to need hospital treatment for them.
The Sun
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I work in the industry and I can tell you, there are a lot of advertisers that bury dodgy Terms and Conditions and misleading language in the fine print and setup auto rebills on products (they call continuity programs) that rebill each month.
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell
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How about'Who's the geezer with the dodgy barnet?
The Sun
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The resellers' names came to Microsoft through a dodgy distributor which went into liquidation.
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But Crikey's sources also say there's still the odd dodgy inducement here and there.
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And sadly, this means I have only my dodgy recollection to double check my account with.
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In the new dossier is a video of an assistant manager at a top club accepting 5,000 in a dodgy deal.
The Sun
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Did she stop because she has dodgy knees?
Times, Sunday Times
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While my life was being played out in anonymous misery in Peckham, he was the cricketing rebel who dared to stick two fingers up to Lord's while single-handedly dismantling the Aussies, a man who never played safe or kept one eye on his averages, whose flaws were part of his appeal – who else could get away with that dodgy moustache and dodgier mullet?
TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens
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Only downsides are the dodgy tan lines.
The Sun
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Micky is used to handling dodgy deals but this time fears he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
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Is that the dodgy stuff I was using that I meant to throw away and never did - or is it that really good stuff I spooled up last month?
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In his book, "The Missionary Position", he berated her for spreading an extreme form of Catholicism and for accepting money from dodgy people such as "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the late dictator of Haiti.
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Then again, you'd need to be paid big bucks to bring back that dodgy barnet.
The Sun
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Olive robert Pattison just looks plain dodgy, what a pity!
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I can't play-I've got a dodgy knee.
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Now I knew an ingredient may be dodgy and no matter how good or bad the meal tasted, I was going to dwell on the fact it was irrevocably, Old Lard.
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Then again, you'd need to be paid big bucks to bring back that dodgy barnet.
The Sun
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Sitting cross-legged on the floor with my big thighs and dodgy knees was quite uncomfortable, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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As she approached a sharp right-hand bend before turning downhill towards the finish, things suddenly looked decidedly dodgy.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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Since then a series of awkward draws and dodgy defeats has led to doom and gloom.
The Sun
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But a shoulder injury convinced him it was time to fix the dodgy knee.
The Sun
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To reach the outside world, you have to drive 50 miles of vertiginous, winding canyon roads, where cell-phone service is dodgy at best.
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It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing.
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It can spot a dodgy dram of whisky, a mucky drop of water or adulterated petrol, in moments.
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Thus it was that, early in the year, among many other fairly dodgy frames on offer in M&S, I found myself contemplating a big pair of mock tortoiseshell Seventies-influenced shades.
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Even Orbital were dodgy punks before they discovered rave.
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He used dodgy restaurants to 'test' his dates and weed out the unadventurous eaters.
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The word dodgy doesnt do any of this activity the remotest justice.
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I thought it was a dodgy fone call and put the fone down.
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As we told yesterday, three other contestants have been kicked off the show for dodgy backgrounds.
The Sun
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You may also wish to blame the government, Fate, bad karma or dodgy feng shui.
RESCUING ROSE
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Any moments of slightly dodgy personal cleanliness.
The Sun
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Coming back into form after dodgy spell.
The Sun
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It is a dark comedy about three former students and a dodgy journalist who hatch a sure-fire get-rich-quick scheme.
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Cycle across America? Sounds a bit dodgy to me.
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They left the club wearing dodgy trucker caps emblazoned with Tigers.
The Sun
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Deposit your cheque in one of these - and don't be conned into buying any financial products by dodgy salesmen and financial advisers!
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Car hire companies cannot afford to send out a car with dodgy brakes or a low oil level.
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That is the sort of devious, dodgy tactic this Government gets up to.
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We were down in Vauxhall for Anna's birthday party, and first of all a group of fourteen of us went to an Indian restaurant called Hot Stuff, tucked away down a dodgy looking street close to where Anna and carakins live.
The One With The Best Curry In London
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Hearing aid notwithstanding, the octogenarian is in fine fettle, bar a dodgy knee.
Times, Sunday Times
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The suitors trying to court Katherina's sister Bianca are moderately funny, and the Katherina/Petruchio relationship, though generally very dodgy, is almost sweet in the penultimate scene.
September Books 21) In the Land of Israel
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So to summerise the general consensus on this website is that Dr Draper MD is a bit dodgy and dropping off you're 8 year old daughter for unsupervised therapy might be a little ill advised in the currant climate.
Guy Fawkes' blog
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These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings.
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However, he also concentrated on the job in hand, sending Dodgy Dancer ahead well inside the final furlong.
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One official explained how investigators identify dodgy results by strange betting patterns.
The Sun
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For the main figure it looks like they took a poser model, stretched it a little bit and propelled it with some dodgy motion capture check out the stiff hands and the way the feet BEND IN THE MIDDLE - yipe!
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I felt elements of dodgy punctuation detracted from a smooth reading and the dialogue needed to be a bit snappier. rumjhum Says:
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We should have had four or five, but it was a perfect away performance apart from giving away a dodgy penalty.
Times, Sunday Times
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By NowhereBob, January 29, 2010 @ 10: 02 am re face recognition, dodgy synapse is saying either Smithsonian Museum or Brit Museum had such.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me.
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There are three other themes to look for:• The inevitable Mitt RomneyRomney remains atop the polls – but many Republicans remain unconvinced that he should be their party's standard bearer because of his dodgy past of repeatedly backflipping on his political positions.
GOP debate in Michigan – as it happened
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One official explained how investigators identify dodgy results by strange betting patterns.
The Sun
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Instead he and his friends headed to Holland, running riot with counterfeit currency and dodgy plastic supplied by an older villain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally they find a dodgy motel that has some space, but the proprietor tells them the only room left contains one single bed.
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Selling Hank a dodgy car may come back to haunt you.
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According to council reports, two thirds of the houses are decrepit with out-of-date heating systems, crumbling walls and dodgy electrics.
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Where we see dodgy presentations and even dodgier products, they see value.
Times, Sunday Times
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How about'Who's the geezer with the dodgy barnet?
The Sun
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This dodgy online pharmacy is invariably just a click and a credit-card payment away.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it's time to have work done on a property, many are tempted by cheap deals from dodgy builders.
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But you only need to google these sites to see something dodgy is going on.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accompanying him in this is Browne as a jovial, if slightly dodgy "conveyancer", a procurer of rare, or in fact any, items.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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It's all great stuff, despite the dodgy quality of the audio and video.
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Instead of the dodgy, contrived stereo mixes, these albums find that inimitable voice riding with the music rather than sitting on top of it.
The Sun
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The committee's operations hit the headlines late last year when MP David Maynier, the Democratic Alliance defence spokesman, went public with what he described as dodgy deals with countries that had poor human rights records.
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The dodgy prosthetic gnashers must be a real treat to wrap your tongue around.
The Sun
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Denis came out as a dedicated drinker, enthusiastic golfer, henpecked husband (he refers to Margaret as the Boss) who always found time to carouse with louche characters and occasional dodgy businessmen from his past.
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The only weak point, and it's piffling, is the dodgy soundtrack.
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I get vibes from people - if they seem a little bit dodgy, I can usually tell.
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If I recorded a song using a guitar pedal that sounded really dodgy, would you accept my excuse that ‘it can't be perfect’?
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Or the fact that the country's national strategic reserve of maize was sold off wholesale at cut-rate prices two years ago in a series of dodgy transactions.
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You may also wish to blame the government, Fate, bad karma or dodgy feng shui.
RESCUING ROSE
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The condition is caused by dodgy nerve fibres that work when she chews.
The Sun
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But the quality of some of the interior materials are fishier than a dodgy paella.
The Sun
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He finds himself drawn on a journey involving phrenology, the dodgy science of determining mental prowess from bumps on the head, involving a machine called a psychograph.
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The move means that my parents live near to one shop, a duck pond, a dodgy bus service and lots of green, rather than close to shopping malls, suburban estates, a tube station and lots of grey.
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He's a dodgy bloke I wouldn't trust him an inch.
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I affected my dodgy fake Irish accent and got chatting to a group of Canberra Uni students.
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Since then a series of awkward draws and dodgy defeats has led to doom and gloom.
The Sun
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As she approached a sharp right-hand bend before turning downhill towards the finish, things suddenly looked decidedly dodgy.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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I am shocked and disgusted with the dodgy deals and sheer, ugly greed that we now know lurks at the very top of our national game.
The Sun
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He has revolutionised Test cricket with his policy of scoring runs fast, yet on a dodgy wicket he is perhaps the most unremovable batsman spawned.
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As if having to recall a whopping 180,865 vehicles in the UK from the Auris, Avensis, Aygo, Corolla, iQ, Verso and Yaris ranges for having dodgy accelerator pedals wasn't embarassing enough, it's now announced a global recall of its third-generation Prius due to rubbish brakes.
Crave at CNET UK
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Afterwards, she was converted to a minelayer with 80 standard mines; but catching a trim on diving was dodgy while the huge mine-casing slowly flooded.
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The mullet, that dodgy haircut with short top and long back (aka business in the front, party at the back), is making a comeback.
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It is about two English people who get caught up in dodgy property deals.
The Sun
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Her blonde hair may be a slightly botched job from a dodgy salon in Cannes, but she doesn't like her roots showing.
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He has been especially dodgy about agreements meant to prevent him from developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
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Dodgy UK daily "redtop" tabloid The Sun has amazed Fall fans the world over by placing the band at number three in their Boxset of the Year awards in today's edition.
The Fall online - latest Fall News
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In other words, under cover of conducting "counterterrorist" border searches, dodgy outfits such as the CIA, FBI, and the NSA are now asserting a "right" to have access to data seized from travelers 'cell phone directories, laptops, financial data or confidential business records stored in CBP databases "available" for their perusal.
Information Liberation
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Same in more austral Patagonia, in Calafate, Santa Cruz province, an historic crossroads for selling cattle and sheep, a magnet for dodgy adventurers in search of limitless estancias, and today a boutique pueblo with a totally dollarized economy.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale
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Apart from climate and pest control, English wine is greatly hampered by dodgy winemaking, with oxidation and overdosing with sulphur still common faults.
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Turns out dodgy panelbeating is a valuable skill on a little windblown island in the middle of nowhere.
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All I need is a cheap tweed coat with leather patches at my elbows and I could be dodgy salesman of the year.
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The Louvre has sent a tiny St George that shows how dodgy was his early grasp of animal and human anatomy.
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What other art form can do that, trace a masterpiece back to some dodgy Beatles' B-side?
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It is a very dodgy user interface but you can't really complain about 250 megs for free.
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It's enough to make his dodgy ticker beat right out of control.
The Sun
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Deposit your cheque in one of these - and don't be conned into buying any financial products by dodgy salesmen and financial advisers!
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It's a caper through London's East End in the company of four blokes with a proprietorial interest in a boozer, which acts as the control centre for their dodgy enterprises.
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Like everyone else, he was shocked to see her charming new husband dishing out dodgy advice and even trying to diddle Emily and the Duckworths out of their life-savings.
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More vote-rigging using dodgy postal ballots and personation at the polling booths?
Labour votes in marginals collapsing
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I presume the importer is listed on that list of dodgy dealers.
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We got to one of the entrance gates and followed the fence round until we met the first group of dodgy scallies.
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The dodgy dossier, need I say more?
The Sun
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She has a strong physical presence, and her supporting cast of flaky models and dodgy men is conjured up with elegant economy.
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I even have a picture of me some years later in a very dodgy checked shirt taken at the Welsh Mountain Zoo.
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Instead of the often surly and obsessed golfer with a dodgy sense of humour a more humble and accessible golfer came to light.
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Mind you, failure to display a phone number doesn't make them instantly dodgy.
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Back then it was a scungy, beer-sticky pub frequented by persons with muddy boots, dodgy connections and dubious personal hygiene.
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The dodgy prosthetic gnashers must be a real treat to wrap your tongue around.
The Sun
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Instead he and his friends headed to Holland, running riot with counterfeit currency and dodgy plastic supplied by an older villain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Playing an infirm defence attorney with a dodgy ticker, he is given further palpitations when a murder suspect's wife opts to testify against him.
Times, Sunday Times
