Chancy

Word CHANCY
Character 6
Hyphenation chancy
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chancy"

What do we mean by chancy?

Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous. adjective

Random; haphazard. adjective

Lucky; propitious. adjective

Uncertain; changeful.

Fortunate; lucky; propitious; foreboding good: applied to either persons or things, and generally used with a negative in the sense of uncanny: thus, persons suspected of possessing magical arts are regarded as not (or no) chancy.

Favorable; safe: as, a chancy wind: generally used with a negative: as, not chancy (that is, dangerous).

Depending on chance. adjective

Subject to accident or chance or change. adjective

Uncertain, risky, hazardous adjective

Subject to chance; random adjective

Subject to accident or chance or change adjective

Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk adjective

Uncertain, risky, hazardous

Subject to chance; random

Lucky; bringing good luck

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The word "chancy" in example sentences

Accepting Loyal Achates at his word chancy I know I must say that I find it odd that he, suffering with a genetic disorder which supposedly claims its victims lives at an early age, is alive at the age of 24 presumably without any medical intervention. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 … ❋ Unknown (2008)

So jump on the "chancy" Obama boat and pray it will stay afloat! ❋ Unknown (2008)

But I'll tell you, it's been really kind of chancy at times. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His good old wife had gotten down her best "chancy," white with blue rimming, while the cloth on the table was as white as snow, and the floor spotlessly neat with its heavy sprinkling of white sand. ❋ Unknown (1901)

Hence it is 'chancy' whether a particular individual will find a job. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Do natural resource giants like Rio, Vale, BHP Billiton and Peabody squander their embarrassment of free cash flow riches on pricy acquisitions and grandiose chancy expansion projects? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Don't take chancy shots, don't blast away at running deer 400 yards away, if you must use "BUCKSHOT" please be close and if you see poachers-TURN THEM IN! ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was little time for watching birds, and getting the mail or supplies was chancy. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Maybe its mere presence in my home will have some giant cascade effect, rippling through my universe, enlivening my entire life, bringing me out of Comfortable and into Fabulous Adventure, but without me having to actually do anything chancy. ❋ CCE Meredith Fein Lichtenberg (2011)

Sunday was "I don't want to go on the cart" ... brain was feeling better, but body was overall weak, as if recovering from said flu, and breathing is still chancy. ❋ Taliakit (2009)

The measures that may dampen demand are secondary and chancy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Corporate officers must clear such R&D with either Bankers or Stockholders in the form of a Board of Directors, niether of whom is noted for being excited about radical and chancy developments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Act. Burkett says, as does the federal prosecutor above, “The decorations are part and parcel of the Constitution creating the military, and anything that denigrates that weakens the Constitution. â€� In an age where strict respect for the Constitution is chancy, that argument may not hold. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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