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


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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28 April 2024

POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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