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dodgy

/doj-ee/US // ˈdɒdʒ i //UK // (ˈdɒdʒɪ) //

蠢货,笨拙的,笨拙,笨重

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    dodg·i·er, dodg·i·est.

    • : inclined to dodge.
    • : evasively tricky: a dodgy manner of dealing with people.
    • : Chiefly British. risky; hazardous; chancy.

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Examples

  • While some businesses, like Amazon and Walmart, have already offered cash incentives to encourage workers to get vaccinated, most haven’t followed suit for fear of entering dodgy legal territory.

  • To succeed, someone would need to physically access your phone and install a monitoring app, or trick you into clicking on a link, opening a dodgy email attachment, or downloading something from outside your operating system’s official app store.

  • The minute you temporarily unlatch yourself from your snowshoes, as I’m forced to do when ascending a dodgier hillside with a couple of exposed rocks, you realize just how hard your calves and quads have been working.

  • Scam sleuthers have found that many of scam websites have links to companies in Britain, where lax government rules allow for dodgy shell companies to be created for dirt cheap.

  • The idea that her horses are being given dodgy feed will not go down well.

  • For many workers, their time in Singapore involves an intricate web of deals, kickbacks, dodgy contracts, exploitation and abuse.

  • The very premise makes for a dodgy commercial undertaking, thus kudos to Anderson for venturing on it.

  • She took up the miserable chore of attending dodgy networking events, but out of that morass came the character of Tallah.

  • China has been a leading source of dodgy carbon offsets used by the EU carbon trading scheme.

  • There was Scarfe, light and dodgy, ready for a run or a neat drop-kick from half-back.