chancy
adjective
informal us
/ˈtʃæn.si/ uk
/ˈtʃɑːn.si/Meaning of chancy in English
(Definition of chancy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
chancy | Intermediate English
chancy
adjective
us
/ˈtʃæn·si/Examples of chancy
chancy
The pendulum swing is challenging and fun like a chancy trapeze act.
From Huffington Post
These breakthroughs may eventually happen, but they are chancy bets.
From NPR
Perhaps because both of these mechanisms are highly stochastic, or random: the really unpredictable, chancy mechanisms of evolution that creationists object to the most.
From Huffington Post
The chancy part, if you're an executive, is it doesn't get people to like your movie.
From Los Angeles Times
It is not enough for the language to talk about chancy events.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These principles constrain the relationship between an agent's credences about chancy events and her credences in propositions about objective chances.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
As his partner in the chancy enterprise of marriage were not her feelings and desires entitled to equal consideration?
From Project Gutenberg
But it had been a chancy, nervous encounter.
From Project Gutenberg
Chancy he read the sign and then took off his hat again and smoothed back his hair.
From Project Gutenberg
A dark road, pitted with shell holes and slimy with mud, is chancy.
From Project Gutenberg
The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days.
From Project Gutenberg
How could she do an insane, chancy thing like this?
From Project Gutenberg
It was a chancy plan at best, and would probably break down long before any visit could be made to the city.
From Project Gutenberg
Fishing in time is a chancy thing, so don't be disappointed if we don't turn you up that other world.
From Project Gutenberg
The task of guarding swamp rookeries from the attacks of money-hungry desperadoes to whom the accursed plumes were worth their weight in gold, is a very chancy proceeding.
From Project Gutenberg
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risqué…
riskli, sonu şüpheli…
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riskantní…
risikabelt, usikkert…
tidak pasti…
ซึ่งมีความเสียง…
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riskant…
sjansepreget, risikabelt…
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