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Meanings of chancy in English

Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.

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Subject to accident or chance or change.

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Usage of chancy in English
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Harper Jaccoud nodded, and she said, It'll be chancy, especially just now.
Dayworld Breakup
2
The first impression is of an art that is casual and chancy.
The Irish Times
3
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...
5
By its chancy light I saw an old man in a wheelchair.
11/22/63
6
Generalisations about nations and national traits are a chancy business as a rule.
The Irish Times
7
Out far enough in the provinces, getting a signal was chancy at best.
The poison eaters: and other stories
8
It seems equally chancy to arm or not to arm Arabs.
The new yorker
9
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
11
But don't you feel now, really, that City money is always very chancy?
The Last Chronicle of Barset
12
Am afraid these dreadful goings-on will be too much for his chancy health yet.
Night Shift
13
The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days.
The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
14
You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman.
Phineas Redux
15
I'd never tried to formalize something that was pretty chancy.
Dead until dark
16
I can't help feeling that a thing like that is always a bit chancy.
The Tyranny of Weakness
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