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dicey

adjective as in risky

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Just a few years ago, the economics of home solar—setting aside the climate benefits—were still dicey in the US.

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If even that is dicey, then say you’re recording everyone’s recollections, age notwithstanding.

It was dicier than it probably needed to be — Ohio State led 35-7 early in the second half -— but Ryan Day’s team earned the result it needed.

Every SaaS and cloud company crushed Q3, but Q4 is looking a bit more dicey.

Good edge engagement is critical to skiing fast, navigating dicey conditions, and maintaining control.

Thus the administration is hit from all sides—at a moment in which it is trying to pursue its dicey diplomatic agenda.

I ask about school performance and behavioral concerns, which can sometimes be dicey.

If the U.S. loses to Germany and one of Portugal or Ghana get a win, however, things get dicey.

Taking more than a day and several iterations of a story to acknowledge it is where things get dicey.

There was the time Harold helped the boys, fixing that dicey scene with Walter Winchell.

Mr Dicey looked very grave and wise for a few seconds without answering.

The appearance of the sledge immediately after, with a shout and a cheer from Dicey and the men, explained the mystery.

On the contrary, they gave him a donation party next week, at which Sister Dicey helped him to receive his guests.

He gets much help from 'a chapter on semi-sovereign assemblies in Dicey's Law of the Constitution (p. 280).

If the proper names, Jim Orpus and Dicey, had not been given, we might not feel absolutely certain that the story was borrowed.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dicey, such as: ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, capricious, and chancy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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