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dicey

adjective as in risky

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Thus the administration is hit from all sides—at a moment in which it is trying to pursue its dicey diplomatic agenda.

I ask about school performance and behavioral concerns, which can sometimes be dicey.

If the U.S. loses to Germany and one of Portugal or Ghana get a win, however, things get dicey.

Taking more than a day and several iterations of a story to acknowledge it is where things get dicey.

There was the time Harold helped the boys, fixing that dicey scene with Walter Winchell.

Mr Dicey looked very grave and wise for a few seconds without answering.

The appearance of the sledge immediately after, with a shout and a cheer from Dicey and the men, explained the mystery.

On the contrary, they gave him a donation party next week, at which Sister Dicey helped him to receive his guests.

He gets much help from 'a chapter on semi-sovereign assemblies in Dicey's Law of the Constitution (p. 280).

If the proper names, Jim Orpus and Dicey, had not been given, we might not feel absolutely certain that the story was borrowed.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dicey, such as: ticklish, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, capricious, and chancy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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