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dodgyadjective chiefly Britishrequiring exceptional skill or caution in performance or handlinggetting the trade unions to go along with the agreement will be a rather dodgy piece of work catchy, delicate, difficult, hairy, knotty, nasty, prickly, problematic(also problematical), sensitive, spiny, sticky, thorny, ticklish, touchy, tough, tricksy, tricky abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, hard, intricate, involved, recondite, seriousproblem, scabrous, stubborn, troublesome, troublous, vexatious, vexing, worrisomeburdensome, demanding, discommoding, exacting, exhausting, importunate, inconvenient, onerous, oppressive, painful, stressful easy, effortless, manageable, painless, simple, straightforward, uncomplicated, undemanding, unproblematic clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive meansneeded a dodgy barrister to get him acquited of the charge artful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, cute, designing, devious, foxy, guileful, scheming, shrewd, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily astute, facile, glib, sharpcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulousbackhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-facedcircuitous, circular, roundaboutclandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercovercalculating, plotting artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, undesigning obvious, open, patent, plain, public, unconcealedaboveboard, candid, direct, forthright, frank, honest, natural, outspoken, plainspoken, real, simple, sincere, straightforward, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious, unvarnishedchildlike, impressionable, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldlyunforced, unstudiedtrustful, trusting giving good reason for being doubted, questioned, or challengedthe authenticity of the "lost" Shakespearean sonnet was more than a little dodgy debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, equivocal, fishy, problematic(also problematical), queer, questionable, shady, shaky, suspect, suspicious alleged, so-called, supposedmootambiguous, open, unclearuncertain, undecided, undeterminedfar-fetched, flimsy, improbable, unlikely, weak certain, hands-down, incontestable, indisputable, indubitable, questionless, sure, undeniable, undoubted, unproblematic, unquestionable decisive, definitiveclear, obvious, open-and-shut, positive in 1861 |