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Significats de chancy en anglès

Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.

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Subject to accident or chance or change.

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Examples for "iffy"
Examples for "iffy"
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In addition; you could find a solution to resolve an iffy development.
The South African
2
Certainly makes more sense than buying into an iffy live music sector.
The Irish Times
3
Big trips and big goals far from home seem iffy at best.
Climbing Magazine
4
I guessed he was over sixty, but the age thing was iffy.
French pressed
5
She might have had time to get out, although that was iffy.
Fortunate harbor
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The weekend's racing had been dogged by light and fluky conditions.
The Irish Times
2
Buffalo's Zemgus Girgensons opened the scoring with a fluky shorthanded goal.
Reuters
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But it was one fluky shot that the Devils netminder would want back.
Reuters
4
The concerns of any given day become contingent, subjunctive, fluky.
The new yorker
5
That might have been the end of the story, one of those fluky baseball accidents.
The last hero: a life of henry aaron
1
The wind was flukey, bringing with it a dry sweet clean fragrance.
The secret river
2
The most recent poll in The Irish Timeswas flawed and flukey.
The Irish Times
3
Not that there was anything remotely flukey about Suárez's first goal.
The Guardian
4
Arsenal won the League with a flukey four-goal win against Everton.
The Irish Times
5
You had that one flukey win over France that time.
Radio NZ
Ús de chancy en anglès
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Harper Jaccoud nodded, and she said, It'll be chancy, especially just now.
Dayworld Breakup
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The first impression is of an art that is casual and chancy.
The Irish Times
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The water might be a little chancy, once we hit the plains.
Lonesome dove
4
The Pole's position was chancy enough to satisfy even his melodramatic soul.
Vikings of the Pacific / The Adventures of the Explorers who Cam...
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By its chancy light I saw an old man in a wheelchair.
11/22/63
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Generalisations about nations and national traits are a chancy business as a rule.
The Irish Times
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Out far enough in the provinces, getting a signal was chancy at best.
The poison eaters: and other stories
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It seems equally chancy to arm or not to arm Arabs.
The new yorker
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It was chancy, but there was nothing else Duncan could do.
Dayworld Rebel
10
That's where it is, you see, the Squire is so chancy.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
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But don't you feel now, really, that City money is always very chancy?
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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Am afraid these dreadful goings-on will be too much for his chancy health yet.
Night Shift
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The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
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You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman.
Phineas Redux
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I'd never tried to formalize something that was pretty chancy.
Dead until dark
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I can't help feeling that a thing like that is always a bit chancy.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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