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chancier

a. (en-comparative of: chancy)

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chancier

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chancy
  1. adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker [syn: chanceful, dicey, dodgy]

  2. subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition" [syn: fluky, flukey, iffy]

  3. [also: chanciest, chancier]

Usage examples of "chancier".

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.