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Chancy   Listen
adjective
chancy  adj.  
1.
Depending on chance.
Synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy, hazardous, risky.
2.
Subject to accident or chance or change.
Synonyms: fluky, flukey, iffy.





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"Chancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... parents, on the other hand, who were unsuccessful in the world's affairs, had the torment of seeing their children go short of food and garments, grow up ignorant and feeble, their only hope of help the chancy kindliness of their more prosperous neighbours and the ill-organized charities left by the ...
— New Worlds For Old - A Plain Account of Modern Socialism • Herbert George Wells
... on in the afternoon when that grave man dismounted a little stiffly from his pony, and I made bold to search for Dan and Belle, and tell my errand. It would maybe be a chancy business, but these two were like bairns then—and on the doorstep they were married. And when the minister's little pony was on its road home, and the sun still red to the west, and we three still standing at the door, Belle with with her two hands ...
— The McBrides - A Romance of Arran • John Sillars


Words linked to "Chancy" :   dangerous, iffy, chanceful, fluky, unsafe, flukey, dicey


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