What's the difference between dodgy and suspect?

Dodgy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Suspect


Definition:

  • (a.) Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
  • (a.) Suspected; distrusted.
  • (a.) Suspicion.
  • (a.) One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; -- formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.
  • (v. t.) To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; -- commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
  • (v. t.) To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.
  • (v. t.) To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.
  • (v. t.) To look up to; to respect.
  • (v. i.) To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
  • (2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
  • (3) Development at two to 15 months of age in the 19 surviving infants was normal in nine, suspect in eight, and severely delayed in two patients.
  • (4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
  • (5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (6) From these results, it can be suspected that the motor fibres are more vulnerable during aging.
  • (7) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
  • (8) Fifteen patients suspected to have Morton's neuroma were examined by computed tomography, which revealed the neuroma in seven cases.
  • (9) Proven necrotizing enterocolitis was seen in eight infants and was suspected in eight others.
  • (10) Persistence of hypercalcaemia combined with an increase in tubular reabsorption of calcium in response to cellulose phosphate may be of diagnostic value in suspected primary hyperparathyroidism.
  • (11) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
  • (12) Bartter's syndrome was suspected because of the features of the hypokalemia, hyperaldosteronism, hyperreninemia, increased concentration of plasma angiotensin I & II, the defect in distal fractional reabsorption of chloride and normotension.
  • (13) When foods such as dairy products contain large numbers of egg yolk-negative strains of S. aureus, the PPSA agar has the advantage over egg yolk containing media such as Baird-Parker agar that fewer suspect colonies have to be confirmed.
  • (14) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
  • (15) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
  • (16) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
  • (17) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
  • (18) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
  • (19) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
  • (20) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.