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dodgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective dodgy has 2 senses
- dodgy(s = adj.all) chanceful, chancy, dicey - of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"
- dodgy(s = adj.all) crafty, cunning, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily - marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" Derived form noun dodge1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dodgy, adj. (dodgier, dodgiest)
1 colloq. awkward, unreliable, tricky.
2 Brit. cunning, artful.
1 colloq. awkward, unreliable, tricky.
2 Brit. cunning, artful.
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