See dodgy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2002 October 27, Burkhard Bilger, “Fortune Hunters and Gatherers”, in The New York Times:",
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"ref": "2010 November 10, Pratish Mistry, “Why Julius Malema is important to the ANC”, in NewsTime:",
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"ref": "2007 November 1, Louise Story, “F.T.C. to Review Online Ads and Privacy”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "“The market is getting edgier and edgier, and what is accepted in the marketplace gets dodgier and dodgier,” said Martin E. Abrams, the executive director of the Center for Information Policy Leadership at the law firm Hunton & Williams, a research organization financed by companies like Google, Microsoft and Best Buy.",
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"ref": "2002 October 27, Burkhard Bilger, “Fortune Hunters and Gatherers”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "Churchill's own forefathers were among the dodgiest of the lot -- one a spendthrift, another a child molester, a third so reclusive that he went three years without saying a word.",
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"sense": "evasive and shifty",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "eo",
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"word": "malpreciza"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "evasive and shifty",
"word": "ausweichend"
},
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "evasive and shifty",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "evasive and shifty",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "evasive and shifty",
"word": "elusivo"
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"roman": "lúkav",
"sense": "evasive and shifty",
"word": "лу́кав"
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "evasive and shifty",
"word": "ве́шт"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "evasive and shifty",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "izvorotlivyj",
"sense": "evasive and shifty",
"word": "изворотливый"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"code": "bg",
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
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"word": "suspektinda"
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{
"code": "eo",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "epävakaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "pas fiable"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "suspect"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "unzuverlässig"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "gyanús"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "kétes"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nedóverliv",
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "szemrany"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepročnyj",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "непрочный"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šatkij",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "шаткий"
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "unsound and unreliable",
"word": "chungo"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "dishonest",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dishonest",
"word": "epärehellinen"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"code": "fr",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "mk",
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "nečéstnyj",
"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "dishonest",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "dishonest",
"word": "tvivelaktig"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "riskovan",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "рискован"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "risky",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "périlleux"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "risqué"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "risky",
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"slang"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "riskant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "risikoreich"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "rizikós"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "bizonytalan"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "rischioso"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neprédvidliv",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "непре́двидлив"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "rízičen",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "ри́зичен"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "riskánten",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "риска́нтен"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "risky",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nepredskazújemyj",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "непредсказу́емый"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "riskovannyj",
"sense": "risky",
"word": "рискованный"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "deviant",
"word": "unormal"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "deviant",
"word": "perversa"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "deviant",
"word": "perverz"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "deviant",
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"masculine"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nástran",
"sense": "deviant",
"word": "на́стран"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "mærkelig"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "stranga"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"word": "louche"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "komisch"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "seltsam"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "weird",
"word": "ungemütlich"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "fura"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "strano"
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{
"code": "it",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "mk",
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"roman": "čúden",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "чу́ден"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "neúdoben",
"sense": "weird",
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nepríjaten",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "непри́јатен"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "weird",
"word": "extraño"
},
{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "weird",
"word": "raro"
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],
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.