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Definition of chancy in English: chancyadjectivechancier, chanciest ˈtʃɑːnsiˈtʃænsi informal Involving risks and uncertainty. football coaching is a chancy business Example sentencesExamples - The natural souring of unpasteurized milk is a chancy business.
- J. K. Galbraith pointed out a long time ago that the smartest businesspeople abhor true competition - it's much too expensive and chancy - far better to monopolise the market for public services and pocket all the profits.
- Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast.
- Intervening on behalf of democracy is chancy enough.
- 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.
- All of us should therefore operate today with some notion of very probably reaching much larger audiences than any we could conceive of even a decade ago, although the chances of retaining that audience are by the same token quite chancy.
- The restoration to favour of forgotten books and authors is always a chancy business.
- When the construct is killed, reconnecting my consciousness with my body is a very chancy business.
- Wild child April, with her piercing and tattoos, has long since left her white middle-class home to live in Manhattan with her black boyfriend Bobby who has connections at the chancy end of the rag trade.
- The fungus doesn't kill the tree, it just reddens the wood, and what this means is that finding a good red myrtle is a very chancy business.
- You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
- That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
- It is extremely chancy, moreover, to anticipate the future of art architecturally, or to presuppose that modern art will continue to be shaped principally by painting and sculpture, albeit on a larger scale.
- ‘That's clumsy, chancy and too dangerous for Bannon to try,’ Cole said flatly, ‘my employer isn't that stupid.’
- It was chancy, but even Brenda knew that taking risks was all part of the fun of living one's life.
- But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business.
- Besides, transporting animals on ocean voyages is a chancy proposition full of danger for the animals and those assigned to care for them.
- My far-flung net of significant others helps me to find meaning and purpose in a random and chancy world, and I hope I reciprocate to some degree.
- And so the chancy element of happenings is central.
- Economists recognize that estimating multiplier effects is a chancy business under the best of circumstances.
Synonyms risky, unpredictable, uncertain, speculative, precarious problematical, unsettled, unsafe, insecure, exposed, touch-and-go, tricky, treacherous, dangerous, fraught with danger, high-risk, hazardous, perilous informal dicey, sticky, hairy British informal dodgy North American informal gnarly archaic or humorous parlous
Derivatives adverb informal In fact, a well-finished closet can be one of the high points when you show off your house - especially to a friend who still tosses things in and then chancily crams the door shut. Example sentencesExamples - Ponting's double-century here appeared much more inevitable than the one at Adelaide, where he attacked the Indian bowling relentlessly and often chancily.
- Last time I remember him playing chancily is his game with black against Morozevich in Corus this year.
- Both James Anderson and Darren Gough swung the ball prodigiously early on, but their efforts bore no fruit as Pakistan chancily played and missed their way to 29-0.
- This makes it not irrelevant to ask how the dramatist's career might have looked if he too had succumbed, just as chancily, to typhoid or plague in early January four centuries ago.
noun informal The chanciness of anyone's coming-to-be is part of the human condition, like mortality. Example sentencesExamples - He likes the chanciness of the San Andreas fault, on which he now lives in California.
- The main characteristic of my work is the contrast between chanciness and design.
- As Garry Wills states, ‘the chanciness of arousal shows the loss of the integrity, the unison, of body and soul’.
- Seen from the standpoint of ordinary people, the essential theme of the the eighteenth-century experience was not so much achievement as the fragility and chanciness of life.
Definition of chancy in US English: chancyadjectiveˈCHansēˈtʃænsi informal Subject to unpredictable changes and circumstances. the screening process was likely to be chancy and unreliable Example sentencesExamples - Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast.
- 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.
- It is extremely chancy, moreover, to anticipate the future of art architecturally, or to presuppose that modern art will continue to be shaped principally by painting and sculpture, albeit on a larger scale.
- Besides, transporting animals on ocean voyages is a chancy proposition full of danger for the animals and those assigned to care for them.
- And so the chancy element of happenings is central.
- My far-flung net of significant others helps me to find meaning and purpose in a random and chancy world, and I hope I reciprocate to some degree.
- Economists recognize that estimating multiplier effects is a chancy business under the best of circumstances.
- It was chancy, but even Brenda knew that taking risks was all part of the fun of living one's life.
- The natural souring of unpasteurized milk is a chancy business.
- When the construct is killed, reconnecting my consciousness with my body is a very chancy business.
- J. K. Galbraith pointed out a long time ago that the smartest businesspeople abhor true competition - it's much too expensive and chancy - far better to monopolise the market for public services and pocket all the profits.
- But intelligence-gathering has always been a chancy business.
- The fungus doesn't kill the tree, it just reddens the wood, and what this means is that finding a good red myrtle is a very chancy business.
- Intervening on behalf of democracy is chancy enough.
- All of us should therefore operate today with some notion of very probably reaching much larger audiences than any we could conceive of even a decade ago, although the chances of retaining that audience are by the same token quite chancy.
- ‘That's clumsy, chancy and too dangerous for Bannon to try,’ Cole said flatly, ‘my employer isn't that stupid.’
- The restoration to favour of forgotten books and authors is always a chancy business.
- That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
- Wild child April, with her piercing and tattoos, has long since left her white middle-class home to live in Manhattan with her black boyfriend Bobby who has connections at the chancy end of the rag trade.
- You got so tired of nearly every risk-taking venture blowing up in your face that you've pretty much stopped attempting anything the least bit chancy.
Synonyms risky, unpredictable, uncertain, speculative, precarious
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