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1 dodgy
1) (difficult or risky: Catching the 5.15 train after the meeting will be rather dodgy.) arriesgado, difícil2) ((of a person, organization etc) not trustworthy or safe, financially or otherwise: I think the whole business sounds a bit dodgy.) sospechoso, poco fiabletr['dɒʤɪ]1 familiar (risky) arriesgado,-a, inseguro,-a; (tricky) peliagudo,-a, difícil, problemático,-a; (dangerous) peligroso,-a; (bad) chungo,-a2 familiar (dishonest - person) que no es de fiar, poco fiable, de poca confianza, sospechoso,-a; (- business) sospechoso,-a, poco fiable'dɑːdʒi, 'dɒdʒiadjective dodgier, dodgiest (BrE colloq)a) (unreliable, dubious)b) ( risky) arriesgado, riesgoso (AmL)['dɒdʒɪ]ADJ (Brit) (compar dodgier) (superl dodgiest)1) (=dishonest) [person] de poco fiar, poco fiable; [business, deal, district] oscuro, chungo (Sp) **; [practice] dudoso2) (=unreliable, uncertain) [plan] arriesgado; [weather] inestablethe clutch is a bit dodgy — el embrague no anda muy bien, el embrague está un poco chungo (Sp) **
to have a dodgy back — tener la espalda fastidiada, estar fastidiado de la espalda
* * *['dɑːdʒi, 'dɒdʒi]adjective dodgier, dodgiest (BrE colloq)a) (unreliable, dubious)b) ( risky) arriesgado, riesgoso (AmL) -
2 dodgy
adj.1 dudoso(a) (familiar) (persona) (británico); peligroso(a) (area), chungo(a) (España); chungo(a) (situation, brakes, weather)2 marrullero.3 arriesgado, peligroso, precario, riesgoso. -
3 difícil
difícil adjetivo 1 ‹ examen› hard, difficult;◊ me fue muy difícil decírselo it was very hard o difficult for me to tell him;es difícil de hacer/entender it's difficult o hard to do/understand 2 ( poco probable) unlikely; veo difícil que gane I doubt if she'll win
difícil adjetivo
1 (que cuesta trabajo o esfuerzo intelectual) difficult, hard
difícil de explicar, difficult to explain
difícil de soportar, hard to bear
2 (improbable) unlikely: es difícil que suceda, it is unlikely that that will happen
3 (una persona) difficult ' difícil' also found in these entries: Spanish: amarre - cañón - compaginación - concienciarse - delicada - delicado - despreocuparse - disyuntiva - engorrosa - engorroso - escabrosa - escabroso - escala - espinosa - espinoso - estrechamiento - gustar - harta - harto - hueso - impronunciable - insensible - judicatura - lance - mas - onerosa - oneroso - papelón - respirar - sí - tocha - tocho - viabilidad - arrecho - caprichoso - contentar - costar - creer - duro - epopeya - especial - esperar - esquivo - fregado - hacer - ingrato - jodido - malabarismo - mancha - manchar English: arduous - around - awkward - beating - choose - climb - concentrate - cumbersome - desperately - difficult - distance - dodgy - elusive - embark - folly - for - gap - grammar - hard - hard-won - housekeeper - immensely - injustice - lean - mess - problematic - problematical - realize - replacement - ruggedness - scramble - shake off - situation - so - sticky - stiff - surely - think ahead - to - tough - tricky - trying - agonizing - deep - demanding - going - increasingly - keep - likely - plight
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