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risky

/ˈɹɪski/

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What does risky mean?

adjective

  1. Dangerous; involving risks.
  2. Misspelling of risqué.
More meanings (1)

adjective

  1. (obsolete) Risqué.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɹɪski/

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Five additional balloons at that time in readiness were never required for the risky service for which they were designed.
John M. (John Mackenzie) BaconThe Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial NavigationProject Gutenberg ebook #861
These might be ranked with the "Sentimental Journeys" that have sometimes been the fashion--that was truly of a prosaic and risky order.
Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) JappRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialProject Gutenberg ebook #590
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My extravagant expenditure of twenty francs, therefore, will be a risky speculation if devoted to the purchase of an apparatus of study.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
It was risky, because of the curve in the darkness at the bottom, and because of the brewers’ waggons with drunken waggoners asleep.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217