[
UK
/dˈaɪsi/
]
[ US /ˈdaɪsi/ ]
[ US /ˈdaɪsi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog
How To Use dicey In A Sentence
- As the BBC wrote a few days ago, a Mars landing is a pretty dicey affair.
- My sewing adventures are always a little dicey, which is why most of my fabric lies uncut and well out of harm's way. Linktastic Friday No. 4 - A Dress A Day
- The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
- The article goes on to describe a lot of the dos and don'ts: beer or hard liquor or a glass of wine okay, splitting a bottle of wine dicey; steak or meat-dominated meal great, cooking for another guy (unless its a grill), or candle-lit dinner, nope; going dutch is best. Archive 2005-04-01
- Their shares are very dicey at the moment -- there are lots of rumours. MURDER SONG
- The "haircut" for bond holders seems especially dicey.
- A jump-start on a pro career makes sense - assuming there is a pro career, and this is the area where allowing high school players in the draft gets dicey.
- We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. Onion soup | smitten kitchen
- The other constraint on the absolutist interpretation of the sovereignty concept arose from Dicey's normativist conception of law.
- Regarding what went down at Fed Square, all I can say is that the people in question didn't get the help they needed and things got a little dicey.