dicey

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Fraught with danger.

2. 2

   Of uncertain, risky outcome.

   • This was a dicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions.
   • Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bit dicey.
   • For sure, the economic and fiscal prospects for an independent Scotland look a lot dicier than they did three years ago.
3. 3

   Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.

   Of doubtful or uncertain efficacy, provenance, etc.; dodgy.

   • As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with his dicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
   • If you were in the business of selling dicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
   • Some more birds were scared off by the dicey smell. The man was dying gradually.

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