iffy
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And conversely, industrial businesses moved into working-class neighborhoods because the land was cheaper and the zoning sometimes iffy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“There’s nothing wrong with wanting men” begins with the iffy premise that extremely online discourse drives what people care about offline.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026
For starters, chasing the rally from here looks iffy.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
While he says the US can keep the air-to-ground war going for a "long time", the air defence war is "more iffy".
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
“But I see what you’re saying. That’s not a big enough push, is it? Not if they’re already sort of iffy about tracking that kind of thing.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
And remember that the door is typically the warmest place in the fridge, so it's fine for pickles and soda but iffier for shorter shelf life items like milk.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023
A welcome exception to the iffier interviewees is Tony Chicotel, a lawyer and expert on long-term-care rights and California law.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
The program’s supposed benefits look even iffier when weighed against its human costs, which are often easier to identify — children growing up without being able to visit fathers, for instance.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2017
Another slide by Coghlan was a lot iffier.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2015
In the present tense, might is used rather than may to describe an iffier situation.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
But the resulting expansion falls prey to that iffiest of modern-day horror movie conventions: an “opening up” narrative that too often feels like a shutting down of what’s truly scary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
