What is "chancey"

Usage examples of "chancey".

Mike Chancey says, and goes to tell Avogadro Pierre that he needs to look for a new line of work.

He himself concluded nothing, accepted no past name, and perhaps by that refusal made his own essence chancier in the world, more difficult to seize on.

But Emuin had left him in order to advise and restrain Tristen, a far chancier element.

That opposing OCTAGON in the game got you into real-world trouble was a much chancier theory.

Sometimes it seems insane that we did it our way, or far chancier to do it our way, than some other, but it always has its reasons and it generally works.

She suspected she had seen more combat than her partner on the drill fieldscouting was a chancier business than fighting in line.

Chancey had been trying to supplement his income by betting on the races, but he was no better at picking horses than at riding them -- he had a passion for claimers who were moving up in class, which any tout will tell you is a quick way to go broke -- and old Chancey, he was getting mighty desperate, and on this particular morning he stopped rubbing Malicious and put him in his stall, and then started trading low whispers with a gnarly little man who had just appeared in the shed row with no visitor's pass or anything, and after a couple of minutes they shook hands and the gnarly little man pricked Chancey's thumb with something sharp and then held it onto a piece of paper.

And what sensitive coin I'd be possessed of at Latouche's, begor, I'd sink it sumtotal, every dolly farting, in vestments of subdominal poteen at prime cost and I bait you my chancey oldcoat against the whole ounce you half on your backboard (if madamaud strips mesdamines may cold strafe illglands !