All dodgy synonyms
dodg·y
D d adj dodgy
- shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
- shaky — tending to shake or tremble.
- chancy — Something that is chancy involves a lot of risk or uncertainty.
- risky — attended with or involving risk; hazardous: a risky undertaking.
- dicey — Something that is dicey is slightly dangerous or uncertain.
- crafty — If you describe someone as crafty, you mean that they achieve what they want in a clever way, often by deceiving people.
- cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
- knavish — like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
- guileful — insidiously cunning; artfully deceptive; wily.
- sly — cunning or wily: sly as a fox.
- tricky — given to or characterized by deceitful tricks; crafty; wily.
- wily — full of, marked by, or proceeding from wiles; crafty; cunning.
- dishonest — not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief: a dishonest person.
- deviant — Deviant behaviour or thinking is different from what people normally consider to be acceptable.
- unreliable — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
- unsafe — secure from liability to harm, injury, danger, or risk: a safe place.
- cryptic — A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
- ambiguous — If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
- untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- deceptive — If something is deceptive, it encourages you to believe something which is not true.
adjective dodgy
- suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- doubtful — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dubious — doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply.
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- hazardous — full of risk; perilous; risky: a hazardous journey.
- precarious — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.