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Meanings of iffy in English

Subject to accident or chance or change.

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Of dubious, doubtful or uncertain legitimacy, legality or authenticity.

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Examples for "chancy"
Examples for "chancy"
1
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
1
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
3
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
Usage of iffy in English
1
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
6
Anything that feels just the tiniest bit iffy will be so categorised.
The Irish Times
7
CB Damarious Randall could be iffy to play Saturday against the Vikings.
Reuters
8
With his gutty in an iffy lie, he chose valor over discretion.
Tommy's honor: the story of old tom morris and young tom morris,...
9
Financially, that was an iffy year for us, and we worked long hours.
A big little life
10
Demerger, regardless of the iffy Dana deal, was the right decision.
The Guardian
11
Anyone with that much integrity is always iffy, particularly a banker.
The witch queen
12
We're two minutes in and I'm starting to feel a bit iffy myself.
The Guardian
13
Anyway-orrather, that being the case-mymemory can be impressively iffy.
The Elephant Vanishes
14
Vaughan had written: 3 run outs and a few iffy shots from Pakistan.
The Guardian
15
Precinct commanders made iffy decisions and reversed themselves all the time.
Driving Heat
16
Before you know it you can have a few iffy results.
The Guardian
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