chancy

How To Use chancy In A Sentence

• So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then — The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• It brought home to me what I already knew - that going tench fishing with only one or two bait options could be a chancy business.
• But such a strategy, chancy at best, certainly can not succeed without a credible threat of a resolution.
• Some would call it chancy, precarious, very dangerous or whatever, but sometimes we walk through those doors and at best, have called it foolishness, of which we wouldn’t have had the really good time we did, should we have elected to always close those doors … Common sense advice on how to stay safe in Mexico.
• a chancy appeal at best
• Even with corruptible officials, Carol thought this was a rather chancy operation. THE LAST TEMPTATION
• But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business.
• The orthography requires both accents above and dots below certain letters, and getting this rendered correctly on the web without special fonts remains a bit chancy.
• Nor had things ever needed to be up to time — time, whose bondslave she now was — but had gone as they listed, in a haphazard, chancy kind of way. Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
• The healing priest told her it would be chancy, with her being so tiny. RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA