Thesaurus / chancy

chancy

How to use chancy in a sentence

To get a light in this way was the most chancy thing in the world.

It was chancy work at best, with a possible stumble up against death at every step.

As his partner in the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and desires entitled to equal consideration?

Include as a factor Hyman by all means, for lacking him our chain of chancy coincidence would lack a most vital link.

The Pole's position was chancy enough to satisfy even his melodramatic soul.

Elspeth was unco clever in her young days, as I can mind right weel, but there was aye a word o' her no being that chancy.

In New York or Chicago, that amount would afford you mighty chancy fare and only a back hall room.

There was, perhaps, a certain wisdom in this, a wisdom of a dashing chancy nature.

THE BERTRAMSANTHONY TROLLOPE

Now Chancy his son has taken the field and is famous among the eleven of his school.

ROUNDABOUT PAPERSWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

But to lead him into the chancy sort of deal Kirby had outlined was entirely too dangerous.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985