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US
/ˈdeɪndʒɝəsɫi/
]
[ UK /dˈeɪndʒəɹəsli/ ]
[ UK /dˈeɪndʒəɹəsli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a dangerous manner
he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge
How To Use dangerously In A Sentence
- The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
- But it's worth remembering that, barely a century ago, the great male fear was not of alpha females with intimidatingly large salaries but their polar opposite: women were seen, rather like immigrant labour now, as dangerously liable to undercut men's wages by doing the same work for less. Young women are now earning more than men – that's not sexist, just fair | Gaby Hinsliff
- Currently, the Italian-built Panthers are being finished off by BAE Systems, with the additional of a machine gun, radios and other accessories, when they will be delivered to the Army, effectively providing "battlefield limousines" for Ruperts – as officers are dismissively called – while troops are forced to patrol in dangerously vulnerable "Snatch" Land Rovers. Feeding the European fantasy
- As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
- He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
- Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.
- They have been drained of meaning by their lazy overuse, dangerously sharp and potent concepts reduced to kitsch cliché.
- I thought it dangerously late in the season for controlled heather burning, a real threat to ground nesting birds like red grouse and dunlin. Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
- Kata training is great for defense, raising your level of fitness, toning your body muscles and releasing those dangerously high levels of stress.
- I've got a peacock-green number, a black thing with loads of diamanté, and a shiny silver one with a dangerously low neckline.