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dicey

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Fromdice +‎-y.

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dicey (comparativedicier,superlativediciest)

  1. Fraught withdanger.
  2. Ofuncertain,riskyoutcome.
    • 2009 June 17, Blessing-Miles Tendi, “Tsvangirai's dicey strategy”, inThe Guardian[1]:
      This was adicey stratagem because all too often the support Britain rendered played into Zanu-PF's anti-colonial constructions.
    • 2012, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, editors,They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from Around the World,page161:
      Devouring the flesh of animals killed on roadways can be a bitdicey.
    • 2017 March 4, John Harris, “Hard Brexit is making the case for Scottish independence”, inThe Guardian[2]:
      For sure, the economic and fiscal prospects for an independent Scotland look a lotdicier than they did three years ago.
  3. Ofdoubtful or uncertainefficacy,provenance, etc.;dodgy.
    • 1992, Vincent O'Sullivan, “The Witness Man”, inPalms and Minarets: Selected Stories,page95:
      As if I'm not a bit past that, Clem thought, as if with hisdicey ticker and all he shouldn′t be taking life pretty quietly, instead of waking with the old memoroes disturbing him.
    • 2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund,The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social,page xv:
      If you were in the business of sellingdicey meat, the invention of the telephone rocked your world.
    • 2011, Keemholems Ojei,The Narcodollar Chieftains: The Narcotics Godfathers[3], page101:
      Some more birds were scared off by thedicey smell. The man was dying gradually.
    • 2025 January 31, Caitlin Owens, “Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation is a coin toss”, inAxios[4]:
      But on abortion, one of hisdiciest issues, his repeated commitment to follow Trump's lead seemed to satisfy ardent anti-abortion members, although several Democrats did their best to remind those colleagues that Kennedy's personal values have been in stark contrast with their own.

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fraught with danger
of uncertain, risky outcome
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