In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
DODGIER
DODGY
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
(adjective) marked by skill in deception; “cunning men often pass for wise”; “deep political machinations”; “a foxy scheme”; “a slick evasive answer”; “sly as a fox”; “tricky Dick”; “a wily old attorney”
chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy
(adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; “an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog”- New Yorker
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
dodgier
comparative form of dodgy
Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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