Crossword clues for dangerously
dangerously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dangerous \Dan"ger*ous\, a. [OE., haughty, difficult, dangerous, fr. OF. dangereus, F. dangereux. See Danger.]
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Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous.
--Shak.It is dangerous to assert a negative.
--Macaulay. -
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
If they incline to think you dangerous To less than gods.
--Milton. In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death. [Colloq.]
--Forby. Bartlett.-
Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.]
My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous.
--Chaucer. Reserved; not affable. [Obs.] ``Of his speech dangerous.''
--Chaucer. -- Dan"ger*ous*ly, adv. -- Dan"ger*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a dangerous manner.
WordNet
adv. in a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge" [syn: perilously, hazardously]
Wikipedia
Dangerously may refer to:
- Jesse Dangerously (born 1979), a Canadian alternative hip hop artist
- Johnny Dangerously, a fictional character
Usage examples of "dangerously".
But he was acutely aware that Watkins was in a dangerously excited state and that it was necessary, if frustrating, to take the time to calm his fears.
The besiegers, encouraged by the presence of their monarch, and assisted by the superior abilities of Vau-ban their engineer, repeated their attacks with such impetuosity that the fort of Cohorn was surrendered after a very obstinate defence, in which he himself had been dangerously wounded.
The coolant inventory in the core was dangerously low from the previous fast leak from the starboard loop.
We unbuttoned his clothes and lifted up his shirt, and he could see himself that he was dangerously wounded.
I found him sitting up in a comfortable bed with a rubicund face which did not look as if he were dangerously ill.
He ejected the magazine from his rifle and fished in his bandolier for another, becoming acutely aware that he was running dangerously low.
We went back to the apartment building and, sure enough, found that all of the other recently installed dishwashers had been wired in the same dangerously wrong way, and if they were left that way, they could have eventually electrocuted the tenants.
They hopped into their boxes on the rear mudguards and Fatty and Ern were soon sailing dangerously fast down the steep Banshee Hill.
He saw his goal near and stretched his legs outward to lock the prince in the steely vise of his thighs, but a warning shout from one of the men alerted Aleksei, who, upon espying the imminent threat, gasped in sudden alarm and stumbled back from the dangerously encroaching limbs.
They danced out their nervous displeasure as Longines whipped them, causing the fiacre to sway dangerously.
He was yet only halfway across, and already the fibroid life attached to the underside of the raft had made it heavy and sluggish and dangerously low in the water.
This epidemic of rustic rabbis, with their simplistic philosophy and folksy adages, gives the Jewish religious establishment and the Roman occupiers a rare opportunity for cooperation, for the priests resent the devotion and enthusiasm that the uneducated Wad lavishes on these fanatics, and the Romans see them as foci for social unrest in a population already dangerously unstable.
It was well that he did, for he was passing the gasolene car dangerously close.
It was only when they were pushed too far, as on April 10, when Dom Gerle insisted that the Assembly declare the Roman Church the only religion of state in France, that positions became dangerously polarized.
Miss Giggs, looking at a pair of scarlet satin evening shoes in an embarrassed manner and tilting her full plate dangerously.