riskily

Example Sentences

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He expressed concern over Gutierrez’s lack of experience as a 24-year-old armorer and wrote that budget-concerned producers sometimes cut corners by riskily hiring people “who are not fully qualified for the complicated and dangerous job.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

Meaning those who'd never had Covid-19 could mistakenly think they had immunity, and might then act riskily because of this false sense of security.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2020

He again earned the adoration of spectators, this time for riskily walking his king into the center of the board against one of the most dangerous players in the tournament.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2020

It also, somewhat more riskily, tries to fold the kind of playful, wide-eyed high spirits familiar from the “Night at the Museum” movies into what is in effect a midlife melodrama.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2013

Only those who earn a living as precariously, as riskily and with as much patient labor as a salmon fisherman, can so well value a dollar.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney