âCoffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.â â Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
DODGY
crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily
(adjective) marked by skill in deception; âcunning men often pass for wiseâ; âdeep political machinationsâ; âa foxy schemeâ; âa slick evasive answerâ; âsly as a foxâ; âtricky Dickâ; âa wily old attorneyâ
chancy, chanceful, dicey, dodgy
(adjective) of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; âan extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smogâ- New Yorker
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
dodgy (comparative dodgier, superlative dodgiest)
(UK, Australian, NZ) evasive and shifty
(UK, Australian, NZ) unsound and unreliable
dishonest
risky
deviant
uncomfortable and weird
Synonyms
• (all): dodge (Australia)
• (unsound and unreliable): shaky, flaky
• (risky): chancy, risky
Anagrams
• Goddy
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
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