(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.
Shifty
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucas’s surname is Madikane ; ultra-conservative Brian was shifty around the couple.
(2) Across town via Royston Vasey, Steve Pemberton is Kevin Weatherill, a man colluding with some shifty types to kidnap his boss's daughter.
(3) There was Nick Griffin himself, described by my self-selected group of Twitter friends as: "incoherent", "shifty", an "arse" and more.
(4) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
(5) The war's growing unpopularity meant there was less tolerance for shifty allies like Karzai perceived to have a foot in both camps.
(6) This suggests that the "shifty" tRNAs proposed by Jacks et al.
(7) This overlap region includes a "shifty" heptanucleotide, followed by a highly structured region that may contain a pseudoknot.
(8) In the case of one shifty sequence, frameshifting promoted by lysyl-tRNA limitation occurs at the sequence AAG C and is due to rightward movement of the ribosome so as to read the AGC triplet overlapping the hungry codon from the right.
(9) Another recent critics' favourite which might not have got a look-in elsewhere is Eran Creevy's Shifty, a fusion of kitchen-sink drama and urban crime thriller.
(10) One of the parallels between August 2007 and August 2011 is the shiftiness of those running the show, a sense that they are not letting on all they know for fear of creating more panic.
(11) 12.37pm: The Guardian's deputy editor, Ian Katz , has just tweeted: Cameron looking staggeringly shifty about extent to which he discussed Coulson appointment with Rebekah Brooks #Leveson — ian katz (@iankatz1000) June 14, 2012 12.39pm: Cameron says he asked Coulson about phone hacking in a face-to-face meeting in the Norman Shaw building in Westminster, at which he sought assurances from Coulson.
(12) The presence of a "shifty" heptanucleotide sequence in this region and a downstream RNA pseudoknot structure indicate that ORF1b is probably expressed by ribosomal frameshifting.
(13) Self-regarding, clever, shifty Boris must be counted among those many voters who have said since Friday: “I only voted leave because I assumed remain would win.” He deserves to be made to sweep up the glass after the Brexit party, but it’s not his style.
(14) He tries to look and sound sincere, and perhaps he is; but he comes across all the same as rather nervous and shifty.
(15) In almost all cases a stable hairpin was predicted four to nine nucleotides downstream of the shifty heptanucleotide.
(16) Dare I ask the bookseller (who has probably recognised the shifty look in my eyes) if not, why not?
(17) They still loved him as they never loved Tony Blair, who also got stuck with the shifty label.
(18) This is not a strong, confident government, it is a shifty, grubby regime, tin-eared to the views of our friends and brainwashed by the Ukip world view.
(19) He certainly came across as an uninspiring and slightly shifty bureaucrat, concerned more about his ambitions than anything else – but, then again, that’s pretty much the persona with which we’re familiar from his parliamentary career.
(20) The lavender, reclining on a chaise longue is looking shifty and smoking a cigarette.