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Meanings of chancy in inglês

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"
              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
              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 chancy in inglês
              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
              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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