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BNC: 33763 COCA: 28534

chancy

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chancy /ˈtʃænsi/ Brit /ˈtʃɑːnsi/ adjective
chancier; chanciest
chancy
/ˈtʃænsi/ Brit /ˈtʃɑːnsi/
adjective
chancier; chanciest
Learner's definition of CHANCY
[also more chancy; most chancy] informal
: possibly having a bad result : involving chance or risk : risky有风险的;冒险的
BNC: 33763 COCA: 28534
chancier; chanciest
1
Scotland : bringing good luck : auspicious
2
: uncertain in outcome or prospect : risky
3
: occurring by chance : haphazard
chanciness noun

Example Sentences

Building your own home is a chancy business. Opening a new restaurant can be chancy.
Recent Examples on the Web Lifelong recommendations based on studies of roughly 50 patients and for no longer than three months seem a bit chancy. WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018 The early concerts have had a biting, chancy energy. New York Times, 21 June 2018 In a curious twist, Gunderson takes the story in an extremely chancy direction during the show’s final minutes. David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018 George Washington's chancy nighttime retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan was a kind of Colonial-era Dunkirk. Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017 In the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, Jeff Lucas watched a driver plow through the brown and turbulent waters in what had momentarily seemed to be a chancy undertaking. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017 The point is that reporting on alleged facts that won’t take place for a decade or more in the future is chancy at best. Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 July 2017 Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager. Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017 Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too. Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1522, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of chancy was circa 1522
BNC: 33763 COCA: 28534

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