Definition of "dodgy" []

• Chiefly British Evasive; shifty. (adjective)
• Chiefly British Unsound, unstable, and unreliable. (adjective)
• Chiefly British So risky as to require very deft handling. (adjective)

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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."
• "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."
• "Something dodgy is going on here as Lakoffian and Joe Brewer said."