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risky
/ˈɹɪski/
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What does risky mean?
adjective
- Dangerous; involving risks.
- Misspelling of risqué.
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adjective
- (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.
These might be ranked with the "Sentimental Journeys" that have sometimes been the fashion--that was truly of a prosaic and risky order.
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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.
It was risky, because of the curve in the darkness at the bottom, and because of the brewers’ waggons with drunken waggoners asleep.