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riskily

adv

Etymology

From risky + -ly.

  1. derived from *lewk-✻
  2. derived from ܪܙܩܐ — “daily ration”
  3. derived from رِزْق — “sustenance, that which God allots”
  4. derived from ῥιζικό — “sustenance obtained by a soldier through his own initiative, fortune”
  5. derived from ῥιζικόν
  6. derived from resecō
  7. derived from *resecum✻
  8. derived from risco — “risk”
  9. borrowed from risque
  10. suffixed as risky — “risk + y”
  11. suffixed as riskily — “risky + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a risky or rather perilous manner.

    • [T]he birds hopped round the door (which, somewhat riskily, they ventured to keep open); [...]
    • They played till the sun went down, in pure amusement, careless and timeless. Then, as the little sledge twirled riskily to rest at the bottom of the slope: [...]

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