dicey

The resulting intimacy is appropriate for the play—and the $20 ticket price is all but unheard-of—but the sight lines can be dicey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

While “Drag Race” is no longer a niche program, the art of drag remains contentious, and giving a wide release to a film like this is both confident and dicey.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

Slate’s Ian Prasad Philbrick wrote a fine piece about how this latest fad is dicey on both policy and political grounds.

From Slate ● May 2, 2026

Last week, we asked you to tell us about your biggest money mistakes — and you opened up about everything from dicey stock-market bets to spending habits that got out of control.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

They fill their mind and hands with soap and repair and dicey confrontations because what is waiting for them, in a suddenly idle moment, is the seep of rage.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

What may have started out as a good idea became too good as deals got dicier.

From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026

But the U.S.’s push to attract mining companies is a dicier proposition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

The director of “Tangerine,” “The Florida Project” and “Red Rocket” excels at thrusting subcultures onto the screen, the dicier, the better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

You don’t really want to hit a guardrail with a vehicle like that, but electrification can make things even dicier.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2024

Moore liked always "digito monstrari et dicier, 'Hic est'"; and his Journal abounds with records of his ingenuous satisfaction in such tributes.

From Thomas Moore by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Nor will Sir Keir’s diciest moments politically over the coming months necessarily all be a result of big tax and spend decisions he makes.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

But the diciest bit may have been an extended riff about Down Syndrome, beginning with Gillis saying that he is sometimes mistaken for having it based on his appearance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2024

This isn’t any kind of journalism, not even the diciest variety of supermarket tabloidism.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2019

But Clement’s diciest moment came when Justice Elena Kagan faced him down.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2013

Perhaps the diciest situation is in Dallas, where prevailing opinion is the Cowboys have tons of ability on the field, very little of it away from the field.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2012