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Significados de dicey em inglês

Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.

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Examples for "dodgy"
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When will banks learn that dodgy tax practices actually cost them dear?
The Guardian
2
The Free State is a flipping dodgy place to do business, folks.
The South African
3
However, those sweets have plenty of dodgy E numbers, environmental and economic.
The Irish Times
4
The same link on the dodgy website doesn't offer as much help.
News.com.au
5
I'm happy you know your people have dodgy, illegal and stole money.
The South African
1
Harper Jaccoud nodded, and she said, It'll be chancy, especially just now.
Dayworld Breakup
2
The first impression is of an art that is casual and chancy.
The Irish Times
3
The water might be a little chancy, once we hit the plains.
Lonesome dove
4
The Pole's position was chancy enough to satisfy even his melodramatic soul.
Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
5
By its chancy light I saw an old man in a wheelchair.
11/22/63
1
None the less, his brain was busy with the chanceful possibilities.
The Price
2
But was it altogether chanceful?
In a Hollow of the Hills
Uso de dicey em inglês
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It seemed a mighty roundabout and dicey way to handle the problem.
Savage
2
Cold entrances are dicey when you're talking about a metahuman living situation.
Soon I will be invincible
3
Time to move this along or things were going to get dicey.
Deadly promises
4
Even with the addition of the print product, it's a dicey proposition.
Wired
5
It was the summer before that his memory got a bit dicey.
See Jane Score
6
Says the Theater District can get a little dicey late at night.
The vaults
7
The car was creeping but, even so, the leap would be dicey.
The charlemagne pursuit
8
I've done some hitchhiking in Sydney and the outskirts-itcan be dicey.
The Perfectionists
9
As for getting authentication from a handwriting expert... that might be dicey.
Finders Keepers
10
Course setup was key to that; pin positions were generally dicey.
The Guardian
11
The situation is very dicey, an executive at another lessor said.
Reuters
12
And as credit contracts, the business situation in Argentina starts to become dicey.
The Return of Depression Economics
13
But I did learn an important lesson during one particularly dicey seagulling session.
Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
14
It's always dicey to read too much into stock market moves.
Wired
15
In the past few weeks, my domestic situation has gotten a little dicey.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
16
It's much better to do three short, solid moves than one dicey one.
Climbing Magazine
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