(1) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
(2) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(3) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
(4) Last week we saw that the government had overstated the failings of the NHS by using dodgy figures (to be precise, they used misleading static figures instead of time trends).
(5) He added that London remained the "libel capital of the world – the place where the rich and dodgy flock to keep their reputations intact".
(6) If you needed a soundtrack to a film about dodgy diplomatic manouvering by folk in linen suits, this would do the job.
(7) Could we just be clear that you now don’t believe Lord Fink’s tax affairs are dodgy?” “Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News.
(8) That would be a nice box-ticking exercise for an unscrupulous council and dodgy developers and a big two fingers for concerned environmentalists.
(9) To use a slightly dodgy analogy, standing one's moral ground in the midst of free-market capitalism might be a delusion akin to the idea of Socialism In One Country: if you believe in the usual left-liberal bundle of causes, politics is probably the best arena to pursue them, rather than fixating on what you do with your money.
(10) A dodgy brown pitch is a boon to England, isn't it?
(11) The LSE thought it was helping the cause by giving Gaddafi's son a dodgy PhD , for which it accepted a £1.5m "donation".
(12) Luckily, we had booked into a rather smart lodge rather than pitching up at a dodgy motel.
(13) We don't know quite why Russia's most apparently liberal oligarch is snapping up print newspapers rather than football clubs (though £12m a year wouldn't buy you a Romanian midfielder with a dodgy knee over at Chelsea).
(14) Interestingly, their report, Tax Evasion Across Industries: Soft Credit Evidence From Greece, which documents the hidden, non-taxed economy, blames the current malaise not on dodgy taxi drivers or moonlighting refuse collectors, but on the professional classes.
(15) She said: "We all know what it's like: you are at freshers' week, you meet up with a dodgy bloke and you do things that you regret.
(16) Loïc Rémy apparently had dodgy knees and yet he hasn’t done too badly has he?” “If they don’t think Charlie would be a good fit for West Ham then that’s their prerogative.
(17) 7.35pm GMT For some reason perhaps only the Gods Of Dodgy Technology know, this live blog has started publishing things in the wrong order.
(18) The bill, which could be on Obama's desk for signing on Friday or early next week, is intended to deal with many of the issues that led to recession in the US: dodgy mortgages, easy credit cards, and limited regulation of banking and Wall Street.
(19) Amid the duck islands and dodgy mortgages, the turfing out of rogues might have been expected to top the wish list.
(20) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
Edgy
Definition:
(a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
(a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined.
Example Sentences:
(1) Garfield has a history of making interesting choices and a knack for using his edgy watchfulness to steal scenes from some of the best actors in the business.
(2) With the unprecedented riches offered by next season’s top tier television deal at stake, it proved a slightly strange, decidedly edgy, game.
(3) And his art is always edgy – a bit worrying, getting a bit under your skin.
(4) The softly-spoken but determined champion, born in Bow and raised in Limerick, brought quiet menace and the threat of a dramatic finish; Saunders, the challenger, all energy and edgy aggression, had come for a night of educated boxing.
(5) A taxi driver called a tipoff line after he recognised a group of difficult clients from that morning, unusually edgy about handling their large suitcases.
(6) The result was Doll By Doll, dominated by Leven, whom I described at the time as "a mixture of Van Morrison and a psychopath", but who could mix edgy, brooding rock songs, such as Butcher Boy, with stirring, lyrical Celtic soul, including the exquisite Main Travelled Roads.
(7) "It's more contrived in terms of 'good girl gone bad' or 'I'm so edgy – I'm twerking in this context.'
(8) Fodi’s liberal audience pay to hear career radicals speak about “dangerous” subjects during “edgy” debates, but turn a blind eye to the unethical practices that events such as the Fodi and the Biennale inevitably cover up.
(9) Barclays bankers were engulfed in a culture of "edginess" and had a "winning at all costs" attitude which raised tensions with regulators and damaged its reputation, according to a review into the ethics of the embattled bank.
(10) Or some edgy comic business relating to abortion, or menstruation?
(11) We got a little bit edgy in the second half, that’s probably more down to the situation we find ourselves in.
(12) Capaldi admitted that a little of Malcolm Tucker, his foul-mouthed political aide in satirical series The Thick of It, had crept into his Doctor, meaning he was a little more "edgy, volatile and dangerous".
(13) It surely helped her reputation as much as her life that she was brave, robust, loyal, edgy, and a survivor.
(14) When Scotland got their goal back it could have been a bit edgy, but we responded fantastically and it was very special for me to score two goals for England in Scotland at Celtic Park.” Gordon Strachan admitted his players had been “spooked” by England’s energetic opening as they slipped to only a second defeat in 11 games to douse some of the optimism generated by Friday’s victory over the Republic of Ireland .
(15) "The comics who are more surrealist, abstract, or edgy – that's never going to work on Live at the Apollo," says Perrin.
(16) The influence of the Forest Fringe – the festival's free, even more eccentric wing – could be discerned in the rise of edgy new venues such as Summerhall , the space curated by Battersea Arts Centre .
(17) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
(18) Their 'hipster' children who have only ever lived through the era of neo-con politics find these environments stultifying and conventional and long for something more edgy, urban and cool-'authentic' places where poor folk live, that make them feel daring and adventurous.
(19) Nor is there any dispute that this is dark and edgy TV.
(20) The old failings were becoming sorely evident and Tottenham fed off the edginess.